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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

July 2024

  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

  • Photo of someone’s energy bill next to seven pounds in cash

    Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners

  • Elizabeth Tait and her son Oliver sitting on sofa at their home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

  • Images of carers

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says Labour finding ‘more mess’ from Tories every day as he launches Great British Energy plan – as it happened

  • Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

  • £5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils

  • Homelessness in England at highest level on record, watchdog says

  • UK politics: Zelenskiy asks Starmer to ‘show leadership’ and let Ukraine use weapons anywhere in Russia – as it happened

  • English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap

  • Keir Starmer aims to avoid backbench rebellion with child poverty taskforce

  • Vocal critic of carer’s allowance scandal to oversee the benefit as minister

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

  • 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

    Schools and health services forced to offer crisis help in the form of food, clothing, money and advice
  • 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

    PM says it ‘would not be appropriate’ to say whether Craig Williams knew that he was going to call a July election

    • 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

    • 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

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