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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

May 2025

  • A volunteers holds a donations bucket with the message: 'We are Macmillan Cancer Support'

    Macmillan accused of ‘betrayal’ over plan to axe cancer benefits advice service

  • Baroness Louise Casey answering question from the London Assembly police and crime committee at City Hall in east London

    MPs warn social care needs substantial investment to fix ‘broken’ system

April 2025

  • Oona Herzberg and her brother Hugh Kirsch.

    Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute

    Hugh Kirsch’s case one of wave of evictions of vulnerable residents caused by crisis in adult social care funding
  • Disabled senior man in wheelchair and assistant in a park

    UK government accused of ‘delay and drift’ over adult social care talks

    Lib Dems say not a single all-party meeting on issue has taken place since plan for national care service was unveiled

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      Reform a ‘racist and far-right’ party, says teaching union after Farage attack – as it happened

    • Carer's allowance crisis
      DWP to overhaul carer’s allowance checks after overpayment scandal

    • Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts

March 2025

  • Students in a lesson raise their arms as a teacher writes on a whiteboard

    Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs

  • Girl eating school lunch

    Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

  • A protester in a wheelchair holds a carboard sign that says 'cuts kill

    Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts

  • Protesters demonstrate against disability and welfare cuts outside parliament during the spring statement.

    More than 3m UK households to lose out from benefits cuts

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Ministers urged to act as thousands more hit by UK carer’s allowance debts

  • ‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits

  • Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade

  • Today in Focus
    Labour’s controversial benefit cuts – podcast

  • Liz Kendall struggles to sell ‘immoral and devastating’ disability benefits cut

  • Which benefits is Keir Starmer’s government planning to cut and why?

  • Coldplay join calls to overturn Kids Company report ahead of legal challenge

  • ‘Not just about cuts’: Liz Kendall says benefits changes will help people find jobs

  • Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

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