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The City watchdog is under pressure from cross-party MPs to explain why it is allowing the sub-prime lender Amigo to push ahead with a rescue plan that will cap compensation payments for nearly 1 million customers, while giving executives the chance to earn £7m in long-term bonuses. The shadow City minister, Pat McFadden, and the …

In response to your editorial (The Guardian view on Scottish politics: a battle with no winners, 24 March), I would like to take issue with the implication that the SNP government is in a state of stale incumbency. Living in Scotland and looking at their record in office, it is clear to see why the …

A decade of real-terms cuts means the tests deciding who receives state-funded adult care are less generous than nearly a quarter of a century ago, with other cuts leaving some care users more than £1,000 a year worse off, the Observer can reveal. The government has frozen the thresholds on who qualifies for state-funded care …

Ministers must force tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft to stop the “immoral” practice of profiting from the £10bn of pension fraud committed by internet scammers, a committee of MPs has urged. Fraudsters use online advertisements, mostly on Google, to trick people out of their pension funds, according to a report published by …

Last April was a devastating time for Averil Smith. Within a matter of days she lost her mother and brother to Covid, and was left with the job of executing her mother’s estate. Almost a year later, the 68-year-old is struggling to sell her mother’s retirement flat, despite dropping the price by £25,000 to below …