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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

April 2025

  • Nigel Farage delivers a speech in Durham on Tuesday

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reform a ‘racist and far-right’ party, says teaching union after Farage attack – as it happened

    NEU leader says union is ‘living rent free’ in Farage’s head after the politician accused him of ‘poisoning the minds of our kids’
  • A man pushing someone in a wheelchair by a waterfront

    Carer's allowance crisis
    DWP to overhaul carer’s allowance checks after overpayment scandal

    Department previously investigated only 50% of earnings limit alerts, meaning many carers fell into debt
  • People protesting against disability welfare cuts outside parliament.

    Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts

    Those who lose benefit payments will find it difficult to access care and support services, says Policy in Practice

March 2025

  • Students in a lesson raise their arms as a teacher writes on a whiteboard

    Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs

  • Girl eating school lunch

    Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

  • A protester in a wheelchair holds a carboard sign that says 'cuts kill

    Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts

  • Protesters demonstrate against disability and welfare cuts outside parliament during the spring statement.

    More than 3m UK households to lose out from benefits cuts

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Ministers urged to act as thousands more hit by UK carer’s allowance debts

  • ‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits

  • Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade

  • Today in Focus
    Labour’s controversial benefit cuts – podcast

  • Liz Kendall struggles to sell ‘immoral and devastating’ disability benefits cut

  • Which benefits is Keir Starmer’s government planning to cut and why?

  • Coldplay join calls to overturn Kids Company report ahead of legal challenge

  • ‘Not just about cuts’: Liz Kendall says benefits changes will help people find jobs

  • Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

  • Town hall leaders condemn ‘ill-thought-out’ plan to merge English councils

  • Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    ‘Ticking timebomb’: how Send spending could bankrupt English councils

  • Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    Ministers plan major changes to Send education in England

February 2025

  • Kendall on a sofa gesticulating with arms while talking

    Ministers scrap DWP program allowing landlords to tap into tenants’ benefits

    Exclusive: Liz Kendall confirms government will no longer back controversial ‘computer says yes’ system
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