This isn’t a cost of living crisis. It’s an inequality crisis
Tackling the ‘cost of living’ crisis is, we are told, one of the government’s key aims. In fact, the phrase appeared in the second line of Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement last week. Which is all well and good, except what we’re actually facing is a cost of inequality crisis. Language matters here. Calling it a […]
Lack of minister presence at food debate ‘scandalous’
Labour MP, Jim McMahon, started the opposition day debate with a speech on food insecurity in the UK. McMahon referred to the “rocketing household bills and the cost of food”, suggesting that a “tax levy on oil and gas companies” would “cushion rocketing energy bills”. The MP for Oldham West and Royston also labelled the […]
‘Cold, Hungry and Stressed’ – Child poverty laid bare this winter
“If it wasn’t for the food bank, myself and my children would starve to death”.
Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy reveals a disdain for the poor
Punitive taxes of this kind make the poor poorer.
Forced to skip meals – ‘A shocking reality’
Labour’s Catherine McKinnell today said it was a “shocking reality“ that over 2.3 million children fall into the food poverty category in the UK. The MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North made the remarks when opening the debate on child food poverty in Westminster Hall, after a high-profile campaign by England footballer Marcus Rashford. The Manchester Utd forward’s petition: ‘End […]
