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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

September 2024

  • Michael Wynne-Parker

    Fixer for donations to king’s charities banned from trustee and director roles

    Watchdog report strongly criticises Michael Wynne-Parker, who was middleman for more than £500,000 of donations
  • Stocks of food at a Trussell Trust food bank

    Most working families on universal credit struggle to buy essentials, research shows

    The Trussell Trust has called for urgent action after half of people on low-income benefits ran out of food in last month
  • Union flags in Windsor

    ‘Somewhat more critical’: pride in Britain’s history falls sharply in survey

    Social attitudes survey finds high levels of pride over sports and the arts but less pride in country’s political influence

August 2024

  • A woman stocking a food bank

    Which benefits are available to vulnerable people under Labour?

  • A domestic energy smart meter measuring gas and electricity usage in a home

    Millions facing ‘cruel winter’ without fuel payments, Labour MPs warn

  • tins of food

    How England came to rely on a ‘sticking plaster’ crisis fund

  • Two women use oven mitts to carry a hot tray of food

    Half a million children ‘face holiday hunger’ if £1bn crisis fund is ditched

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘I was petrified’: how DWP threatened woman over carer’s allowance breach

  • Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ending sexual violence on public transport is ‘absolute priority’, says minister – as it happened

  • RSPB criticised by watchdog for accusing politicians of being liars on X

  • UK’s biggest housing association fined over four-year failure to fix window

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

  • Montage for of people including Stephen Timms

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

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

  • 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’

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