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The Tories are breaking Britain
Their cuts are destroying the fabric of our society but the Tories have no solutions to increasing poverty and insecurity, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
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The right to buy may have been scrapped in Scotland, but the damage it has done lives on even now, writes MATT KERR
Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism
OVER the last five years more than 500,000 workers in Britain have fallen into working poverty, it was revealed this week in the UK Poverty 2018 report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
It also showed that the number of people with a job but living below the breadline has risen faster than employment, further destroying the Tory myth that their policies make work pay.
Four million workers are now poverty in Tory Britain, meaning around one in eight in the economy are working poor, and eight million people live in poverty in families where at least one person is in work.
The JRF defines the poverty line as being when households earn less than 60 per cent of the median income, adjusted for the household’s type and size. In 2016-2017, the average median income for UK households after housing costs was £425 a week (£22,100 a year.)
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