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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

July 2024

  • A football lying on the ground in a playground, with children playing in the background, out of focus

    Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

  • Children at a primary chool

    UK politics: minister cites ‘strict spending controls’ amid calls to scrap two-child benefit cap – as it happened

June 2024

  • Primary school children queueing for breakfast at a canteen

    Teachers and GPs ‘staggering’ under extra demands caused by poverty in Great Britain

  • Craig Williams (left) pictured with Rishi Sunak in 2023.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak refuses to say if aide who bet on election date knew about timing – as it happened

  • Beth Rigby and Rishi Sunak.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happened

  • Boris Johnson speaking as a Monster Raving Loony party candidate lifts his costume to wipe his forehead in the background

    Trust in British politics hits record low, latest BSA survey finds

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election – as it happened: planned opportunity for media to question Sunak ‘cancelled’ as D-day fallout continues

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Lib Dems to promise £1.5bn reform of carer’s allowance including debt amnesty

  • ‘It haunts you’: a foundling tells how the questions never go away

  • ‘This whole case is extraordinary’: survival of Baby Elsa and her siblings was a miracle

May 2024

  • Sian Phillips poses after she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2016

    Actors win apology from English charity watchdog in row over board ‘coup’

  • A jobcentre sign lit up with a dark sky and buildings behind

    Deaf man awarded £50,000 damages after mistreatment by jobcentre officials

  • Wethersfield military base which houses asylum seekers: view at twilight of a tall wire fence with yellow lighting and barracks-style buildings, with a tree to one side and a pylon silhouetted behind. The sky is dark grey and cloudy. The scene looks bleak and ominous.

    National reckonings and public inquiries: what scandals come next?

  • Rose Chiteseko at home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘No one would accept blame’: Carers highlight DWP failures over debt crisis

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    National Audit Office to investigate growing scandal over carer’s allowance

  • Inquiry to begin into DWP’s treatment of ill and disabled people on benefits

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Carer’s allowance report a vivid insight into failings of an unfit system

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Ministers knew about carer’s allowance problems three years ago, report reveals

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    MPs call for issues leaving carers with huge debts to be fixed ‘without delay’

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