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The bigger problem with most public sector pensions (obviously not the Local Government one) is that they aren't funded at all. There is no pension fund for the NHS, for example. They pay this year's pensioners out of the current staff's contributions, and the annual deficit is because the...

Are there any official statistics about how many of these cross-Channel immigrants are genuine asylum seekers desperate to get away from France, and how many are would-be economic migrants who can't get in legally? If there aren't, it's inevitable that the two will be conflated. However, let...

I don't see how there is a lack of legal asylum routes, with about 700,000 legal immigrants in each of the last two years. The reason these asylum seekers are coming indirectly from long distances but more directly from France, is because as individuals they believe they would not be allowed...

Presumably Lammy is suggesting that Starmer wears his wife's clothes?

You only get child benefit removed if you want it removed. If you have too much income to be entitled to child benefit, you can still receive it anyway and pay it back on the end of year tax return. It shouldn't be forcibly taken off you. If you want to means test, then the "easy" way is to...

Mind you, last year there was a £300 bonus for all so the amount they will lose this year is £500 - £600 per household. The quick and easy way to save a bit of money without the furore would have been to pay it as they do now but make it taxable. Pensioners at basic rate would pay 20%, higher...