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The Lead Untangles: The Timms Review of PIP
Reforms to the Personal Independent Payment sat at the heart of a major Labour rebellion last year over welfare. What is the future of the benefit?
Sep 17
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Sarah Sinclair
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Exclusive: Over a third of disabled people at risk from Labour’s benefit cuts are 50+
New figures obtained by The Lead show more than one third of people at risk from cuts to universal credit disability payments are over 50 – a group…
Sep 12
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The Lead
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“Thrown away by society”: Inside Britain’s disability employment gap
The disability employment gap has been stuck at 30 per cent for thirty years. Disabled jobseekers tell The Lead why Labour’s welfare reforms won’t close…
Aug 29
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Hannah Shewan Stevens
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The Lead
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I was a midwife for 30 years. Now I earn £86.45-a-week to care for my mum
The government wants unpaid carers to work more. Jacqui Hylton, a former midwife who now cares for her mum full-time, explains why the system makes that…
Aug 25
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The Lead
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The Lead Untangles: How extreme heat is impacting our health service
Clinicians and healthcare professionals saw the human cost of the heatwave last month – but risk suspension for climate protests
Aug 6
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Ellie Broughton
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The Lead
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The Lead Untangles: The push to regulate therapy
A new petition says it’s time to regulate the profession– but therapists and clients disagree
Jul 23
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The Lead
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Ellie Broughton
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The murder of a toddler and the web of lies spun to deceive
An inquiry will mean those who were meant to protect Preston Davey will have to answer how he was so badly failed
Jun 18
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The Lead Editors
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The Lead
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Deadly delays and treatment in chains: How prisons are failing women with cancer
Months after the Bronzefield cancer scandal, the UK’s prison health system is still falling below NHS standards and putting the lives of female…
Apr 18
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The Lead
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Tabby Kibugi
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What does a good death look like?
Scotland's decision on assisted dying is an opportunity to expand personal autonomy at the end of life.
Mar 17
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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The Lead Untangles: Is the Greens' drugs policy reckless or responsible?
As Zack Polanski pledges to legalise and regulate drugs, Sarah Sinclair dives into the detail of this controversial policy – what does the evidence say?
Mar 5
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The Lead
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Sarah Sinclair
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“Playing Russian roulette with my life”: What really happens to sickle cell patients in hospital
Lowlah was kicked out of a London hospital in the middle of the night after asking for pain relief. Her story reveals a pattern of "racism and…
Dec 6, 2025
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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We’re in an STI crisis. Once again, Black women are being left behind
The gonorrhoea vaccine should be a major breakthrough, but young Black women are being left out of sexual health policy – with devastating effects.
Oct 18, 2025
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Tabby Kibugi
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The Lead
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