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This election leaves Britain hungry
Millions are going hungry in our nation, but Labour is still not prepared to commit to taking the action needed to address the chaos the Tories leave in their wake, write Dr TOMMY KANE, ALEX COLAS and Dr MICHAEL CALDERBANK
A queue forms at foodbank in north London, March 2021
In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT
Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
FOUR weeks in from Rishi Sunak’s increasingly fratricidal decision to call a snap election, the country is still waiting on the main political parties to set out any kind of vision that will tackle the deep-seated poverty that affects so many, as well as its manifestations and its causes.
Research figures from the House of Commons Library outlines the scale of the problem. Prolonged austerity and a shift of wealth from the bottom to the top resulted in 11.4 million people (17 per cent) in relative poverty before housing costs during 2022-23, and 14.3 million after housing costs (21 per cent). This includes 3.2 million children (22 per cent) before housing costs and 4.3 million after housing costs (30 per cent).
The number of people unable to meet their basic needs is shameful. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, “Destitution, where people cannot afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed — was sitting at around 3.8 million people who experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children.”
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