Fury as Universal Credit cut will push 22,000 children across Scotland into poverty, campaigners warn

Michael Gove has attacked the SNP’s approach to devolution and claimed the Scottish Government’s aim was to “take power away from Scottish councils”.

Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon of stripping Scottish families of their dignity with spending cuts and vowed to win back his party’s former heartlands.

Nicola Sturgeon has a "duty" to challenge the UK Government over its "staggeringly selfish" stance on providing coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations, campaigners have said.

Keir Starmer has launched a blistering attack on Nicola Sturgeon’s handling of the pandemic.

Boris Johnson has been urged to “rethink” the decision not to support a massive carbon capture project in Scotland by the man leading efforts to help the transition from oil and gas to green industries.

Boris Johnson is under pressure to re-introduce covid restrictions to prevent the NHS stumbling into a winter crisis.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has laid flowers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess - which police believe could be linked to Islamist extremism.

A parliamentary inquiry must be launched into the Scottish Government's initial response to the coronavirus pandemic last year, Labour had demanded.

Scots looking for work face relying on the UK Government's "measly" benefits system which is the least generous in northern Europe, it's been claimed.

The £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit, which was introduced last March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was scrapped on October 6 in a move that will affect thousands of people across Scotland and nearly 5.9 million across the UK in total - some 5.2 million households.

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack ignored a plea to meet one of the country’s top anti-poverty groups to discuss the cuts to Universal Credit.

Nicola Sturgeon has made a fresh warning to Boris Johnson not to block a second referendum on Scottish independence.

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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has contacted nearly six million benefit claimants across the UK confirming their Universal Credit payment will be cut by £20-a-week from October 6, 2021.

Scottish Conservatives, the Prime Minister congratulated the Scottish Tories on blunting Nicola Sturgeon’s ambitions for an SNP majority at the Scottish elections in May.To cheers at an evening reception, he said: “It is the first time I’ve been able to thank you all in person for the heroic act of depriving the SNP of the majority they so craved.”Johnson went on to launch an outspoken attack on the independence movement, claiming “ the gilt is coming off the gingerbread of the Scottish

Covid red list rules outlined by the Scottish Government. But this could be significantly reduced when the conclusion of the latest travel review is expected on Thursday next week.

Universal Credit, announced last year at the start of the pandemic, began winding down towards the end of September and will finally come to an end this week while the Tories gather for their annual conference in Manchester. The move has been widely condemned by charities and opposition parties and Johnson faces pressure from many Conservative MPs deeply concerned about the impact on low-income families.

iOS - Android Wishaw MSP Clare Adamson said: “People are struggling even with the uplift. Yet the Scottish Tories have the temerity to defend this abominable cut."They are failing in a basic duty as MSPs to advocate for our most vulnerable constituents.