Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Pensioner poverty: Rising pension age risks greater levels of poverty and health inequities, experts warn
“Even the suggestion that people won’t get it until their 70s will make people feel more distrustful than they already do in the state pension system.”
Calls grow for childcare workers to earn £15 an hour minimum wage and to end zero-hour contracts
‘Caring for and educating young children is skilled work, and the overwhelmingly female workforce deserves decent pay and conditions.’
The European Parliament: The Next Target of the Far-Right
What is fevered activity between minor parties in Europe, becomes equally fevered factional activity within the Tory Party.
Homelessness charity issues chilling warning over council funding cuts
A vital charity that helps vulnerable people has become vulnerable itself.
Northern mayors say train services have ‘got poorer’ since Northern Powerhouse promise
“What message does that send about the North? That we are somehow worth less than people in the South?"
Faith leaders and celebrities back Essential Guarantee Campaign, calling on political leaders to address poverty in election manifestos
‘The current amount of Universal Credit people are receiving has no bearing on basic human needs.’