Archive of 2017
Labour councillors sign open letter urging party to change its Brexit position
Seventy Labour councillors have signed the letter
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Government accused of complacency over rising homelessness
Cross-party group of MPs slam the government's approach to homelessness
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DWP ordered to publish another set of secret Universal Credit docs
The Information Commissioner's Office has ordered the department to release the papers
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Home Office defeated at the High Court over deportations of EU rough sleepers
Home Office policy ruled unlawful
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Met under pressure as mayor intervenes over migrant rape arrest
Sadiq Khan took to Twitter to express his anger over the case
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Woman reports rape to police - and is arrested on immigration charges
The bleak reality of Theresa May's 'hostile environment' revealed
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Free at the point of use? NHS employs debt-collectors over 'health tourism'
Migrants being chased by debt-collectors over unpaid hospital bills
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Govt faces legal fight over Home Office access to NHS patient data
Charity launches bid to stop patient data being passed to the Home Office
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Single parent families could be left 'destitute' as Home Office accesses child maintenance records
May's 'hostile environment' includes child maintenance records being handed to the Home Office
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Warning over new exclusion threat for disabled people
Leading charity warns government is in danger of excluding disabled people from key area of economic policy
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DWP fights to block publication of Universal Credit docs
The government has launched a legal challenge to prevent the documents being disclosed
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DWP quietly drops Universal Credit child poverty forecast
The DWP no longer wants to talk about the impact of Universal Credit on child poverty
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Victory for campaigners as govt exempts school nurses from migrant NHS rules
School nurses and health visitors will no longer be expected to enforce new NHS charging rules for migrants
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Protesters block Department of Health over new migrant NHS rules
Protests continue as new NHS migrant rules come into force today
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Private landlords turning away Universal Credit claimants in droves
Sixty-nine per cent of estate agents contacted said they had no landlords who would accept Universal Credit claimants
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Campaigners descend on London hospital to protest against new migrant NHS rules
Activists took part in several actions against new ID checks and charging rules
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Rollout of Universal Credit in Grenfell area halted until 2018
The new benefit will not be fully introduced in North Kensington for another year
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School nurses could be forced to deny migrant children treatment under new rules
New rules mean school nurses and health visitors could be forced to turn children away
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Social cleansing: Hundreds of families moved out of London boroughs immediately after Grenfell
In a four week period hundreds of households were moved out of London boroughs
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Benefit sanctions shoot up 50% in six months
Sanctions imposed on people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit rose from 18,994 last July to 33,860 in December
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Revealed: MPs using immigration enforcement hotline to report people to the Home Office
MPs accused of a "fundamental betrayal of trust" for tipping off the Home Office
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Sadiq Khan says police are "duty bound" to report victims of crime to the Home Office
London mayor has been urged to rethink his position
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Daily Mail's migrant cleaners preparing to strike for better pay
The cleaners are demanding the recommended London Living Wage
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Sex worker robbed at knifepoint faces deportation after contacting police
Sex workers warn that the threat of prosecution and deportation is preventing them from reporting crime
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DWP fights to block publication of fit-for-work documents
Legal battle launched to stop fit-for-work documents being released
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