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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

July 2024

  • 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

  • Images of carers

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

  • Keir Starmer speaking from behind a lectern, with people in high vis jackets standing behind him

    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

  • 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

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