New DWP rules start this week for 180,000 people on Universal Credit working part-time

Good Morning Britain was ground to a halt on Thursday, when Kate Middleton stopped her news report make a breaking news announcement. Thursday's presenters Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid were mid way through discussing the recent news that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had announced a General Election on July 4 when Kate stopped by with urgent news.The presenter stopped her news report to provide the latest update on the Post Office scandal inquiry.

Nigel Farage has announced he is not standing as a Reform UK candidate in the July 4 General Election, but will “do my bit to help” the party in the campaign.

The New York Times reports that the US Justice Department will file the lawsuit as soon as Thursday, with sources revealing that it will focus on Live Nation’s alleged behaviour of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the live music industry.This includes arguments of Live Nation capitalising on its ownership of Ticketmaster, which runs exclusive ticketing contracts with concert venues. Live Nation is also said to have bolstered its ability to run a monopoly by raising prices and fees for consumers though its supposed dominance over concert tours and venue management.The lawsuit was first revealed in a report by the Wall Street Journal in April, which claimed that Live Nation now controls more than 80 per cent of live music ticket sales in the US since its 2010 merger with Ticketmaster.

British voters will head to the polls on American Independence Day.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed the date of the next general election.

The campaigning mother of Martyn Hett - murdered alongside 21 others in the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017 - has arrived in London on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the atrocity after a 200-mile walk to the capital to demand action on proposed new anti-terror legislation in his name.

Tory ministers are coming under fire from critics for using new plans to create skills "bootcamps" to divert attention from their shortcomings, amid the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) crackdown on unemployment benefits.

The latest statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that there are now 6.7 million people across Scotland, England and Wales, receiving financial support through Universal Credit, a means-tested benefit intended to help those out of work or on a low income, with daily living costs.

Work and Pensions Secretary of State, Mel Stride MP, will face questions from the Work and Pensions Committee this week in an accountability session examining the work of his Department as well as recent UK Government announcements and policy developments. The meeting with the cross-party group of MPs will take place on Wednesday, May 22 at 9.25am.

Andrew Neil is reuniting with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire to host UK and U.S. election coverage.

Ofcom has begun the procedure to issue GB News with a sanction following a “serious and repeated” breach of its code over a People’s Forum show in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took questions from a live audience.

Sir Stephen Timms, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, has written to Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, following an oral evidence session last week with the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) Campaign and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) on the findings in its final report into changes made to the State Pension age for millions of women born in the 1950s.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Neon, the Oscar-winning distributor of “Parasite,” is getting back in business with “Titane” director Julia Ducournau. In one of the first big rights deals of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the studio announced it has acquired North American territories for Ducournau’s “Alpha.” Plot details were not immediately disclosed, except that the film will be “genre-defying.” Neon previously released Ducournau’s acclaimed “Titane,” which won Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or, in 2021. She is only the second woman director to do so, following Jane Campion for “The Piano.” “Alpha” will star Golshifteh Farahani (“The Patience Stone,” “Paterson”) and Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian,” “A Prophet”).

Bosses at the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) have promised to 'leave no stone unturned' in tackling unemployment after it emerged that 85,000 people had left work since the start of the year. This makes Britain the only major economy with fewer people working than before the pandemic, after more than one million people dropped out of the workforce.

New rules laid out by the DWP for Universal Credit claimants have come into play today following their launch yesterday (Monday, May 13).

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Norman Lear not only knew about television, but the late TV icon was also an influential art collector along with his wife of 37 years, Lyn Davis Lear. And now, several pieces from the Lears’ art collection will hit the Christie’s auction block, including David Hockney’s 1967 “A Lawn Being Sprinkled.” When the “All in the Family” creator bought the work in 1978 for $64,000, it marked the highest price paid for a piece by the British artist. Christie’s estimates it will bring in $25-$35 million after debuting during the 20th Century Evening Sale in New York City on May 16.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently confirmed that millions of people claiming Universal Credit will see the annual uprating reflected in their monthly payments from Tuesday, May 14. However, some will have to wait nearly an extra month to receive the higher amount in their bank account.

Vampire Weekend performed ‘Gen-X Cops’ and ‘Capricorn’ while appearing as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Check out footage below.The New York indie rockers’ visit to the late night show – which was hosted this week by Maya Rudolph – marked the first time they had played there in 11 years, and their fourth overall.The band performed the two tracks from new album ‘Only God Was Above Us’, which NME hailed in a four-star review as a “technicolour, sprawling ode to a long-gone, old New York City”.Ezra Koenig and co.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently confirmed that millions of people claiming Universal Credit will see the annual uprating reflected in their monthly payments from Tuesday, May 14, however, some will have to wait until June 13 to receive the higher amount in their bank account.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told MPs that he “understands the strong feelings” across Parliament over the lack of response to the recently published Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) final report into the impact of changes to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s. During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, he acknowledged the “desire for urgency in addressing them” but added that an update “will be given to the House once those findings have been fully considered”.