Angela Rayner is STILL defending Labour’s position on the two-child limit
The Labour Party is gearing up for its first King's Speech on Wednesday 17 July. Ahead of this, politicians from ...
Tag: poverty
A national disgrace: Glasgow’s child homelessness crisis represents a UK-wide Tory failure
On 15 July, news emerged from Glasgow that 3,000 children are currently homeless. While this is a particularly harrowing statistic ...
The general election just BURIED news about the DWP’s Universal Credit roll out
With all eyes trained on the final sprint to general election day, a local news site quietly dropped news on ...
A foodbank shutting up shop for the election is the perfect metaphor for this political farce
A single post on X is the most fitting metaphor for this absolute clown show of a general election. In ...
Energy firms are hoarding £3 BILLION in YOUR customer credit and making £159m in interest alone
Over two-thirds of Welsh billpayers (70%) are calling for energy suppliers to automatically return any customer credit in their account ...
General election candidates are being asked ‘what are YOU going to do about poverty?’
All political parties are being asked to tackle poverty, with nearly 5,000 emails sent to candidates across the country ahead ...
The Tories have thrown 1,300 children a WEEK into poverty since 2010
Analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the Tories have presided over a 44% (+900,000) increase in the number ...
DWP has already started moving ESA claimants to Universal Credit as ‘guinea pigs’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly pressed ahead with forcing ESA benefit claimants onto Universal Credit. Crucially, ...
‘It’s now not about teaching, it’s about keeping kids fed’: the reality of the UK’s hardship epidemic exposed
New research shows how Britain’s primary schools and GP surgeries are staggering under the weight of hardship as they divert ...
The one graph that should shame the Tories – and Boris Johnson – at the general election
Boris Johnson's flagship policy when he was Conservative Party prime minister has failed, according to new analysis. Everyone outside of ...
Ghoul Penny Mordaunt is promoting her rebranded foodbanks again
Former Tory MP for Portsmouth North Penny Mordaunt has had quite the career: from reality TV to Charlie's coronation via ...
Starmer’s idea of giving “every child the best start” leaves hundreds of thousands of them in poverty
Keir Starmer was in Nuneaton on 10 June to campaign for his policies for UK children at the general election. ...
The NEW figures on poverty the Tories don’t want you to see before the general election
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have exposed just how dire the situation is for so many people ...
DWP is being forced to defend its decision to cut YOUR Universal Credit benefits
Before voters head to the polls in the general election, another likely-to-be damning indictment of the Tories callous cuts to ...
Poverty should be the biggest issue at the general election – but will it be?
A think tank has given a briefing on just how bad poverty and destitution are in the UK, as the ...
The DWP is hiring surveillance snoops for its fascist “benefit fraud” plans
If you ever wanted a job bootlicking for Tory big brother Britain, look no further, because the Department of Work ...
Humans waste over one BILLION meals a day. How can this even be justified?
Households across all continents wasted over one billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by ...
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