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Tory MPs’ rent expenses soar as they inflict real-terms housing benefit cut

Exclusive: Tory MPs blamed rising rents for increased claims, while government imposed freeze on poorest tenants

What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification

Fifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat

Kate Forbes’ economic agenda is just as dangerous as her conservative views

OPINION: Scotland’s poorest would likely be worse off under the leadership of the SNP finance minister

UK human rights being ‘eroded’, warn dozens of groups in landmark letter

Exclusive: Liberty, Unison and Mermaids among groups sending ‘distress signal’ as UN begins living standards probe

Pre-payment meter forcibly installed in student home despite bills being paid

Exclusive: Students threatened by bailiffs after accommodation firm UniHomes seemingly failed to pay energy suppliers

What the SNP leadership race says about the party’s post-Sturgeon future

With the candidates officially announced, culture wars and the road to independence are set to be key battlegrounds

We deserve better than Starmer’s Blairite government. Here’s how we get it

OPINION: To avoid another government committed to continuing Thatcherism, we need new tech that makes votes count