It would be the first time since the welfare state was created that social security rates were based on what people need, and how much living essentials actually cost.
‘There has been an ‘abject failure’ in leadership from the government who have done absolutely nothing to reduce these staggeringly excessive profits of supermarkets like Tesco.’
“I am currently on maternity leave and can’t afford to stay at home for the full 39 weeks due to not receiving any extra help from tax credits as this is my 3rd child.”
‘Cuts have consequences – but so does investment.’
48% of children in BAME families are growing up in poverty as are 44% of children in lone-parent families.
The policy was heralded as a ‘powerful ambition to eradicate poverty’
‘The elephant in the room is the lack of funding for pay rises to recruit/retain public sector workers.’
Paul Nowak on tackling discrimination in the trade union movement and the need for political change
In the face of rising costs and growing levels of child poverty, calls are being ramped up for the government to take action over free school meal provision.
Liz Truss might have been cast to political oblivion, but she was the breed of prime minister the Tory right had long yearned for, and her spectacular downfall has not allayed the thirst for true-blue tax cuts.
