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Four years of the Tories’ two-child limit: Here’s what it’s done

Lucy Skoulding
8 April, 2021 (2 weeks ago)

If the Tory policy was scrapped now 200,000 children would immediately be lifted out of poverty

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Tory ‘levelling up’ fund is leaving some of the poorest in Scotland behind

Sophia Dourou
8 March, 2021

The SNP have slammed the government for depriving some of the poorest Scots of funding in the scandal-hit ‘levelling up’ scheme.

Plaid Cymru MP: Poor children in Wales failed by school meals policy

Leanne Wood
22 February, 2021

Free schools meals are failing to reach many of those who need them most in Wales.

Food bank

Neil Gray MP: How slashing Universal Credit will plunge thousands into poverty

Neil Gray
25 January, 2021

We are still in the midst of the worst health and economic crisis that impact those on the lowest incomes hardest.

Tory MP accuses public of ‘instant outrage’ free school meals

Lucy Skoulding
14 January, 2021

A Twitter post shared a a ‘pitiful’ amount of food from a free school meal bag meant to last for 10 days

job centre

Government again denies flaws in Universal Credit – despite grim testimony given to MPs

Lucy Skoulding
12 January, 2021

‘The new lockdown will have brought a renewed sense of financial dread for many families’

Daniel Zeichner: Britain’s food system is broken – and the Tories can’t fix it

Daniel Zeichner
24 December, 2020

The market alone can’t solve food poverty.

Angel of the North

Jim McMahon: This government must stop treating the North as an afterthought

Jim McMahon
21 December, 2020

The North could help boost Britain’s economic recovery but not if we repeat mistakes of the past, writes Jim McMahon MP

Food bank

How the Tories have allowed millions to plunge into destitution

Prem Sikka
18 December, 2020

Poverty and destitution are not the outcome of some invisible hand of fate, but the that of government policies and unresponsive economic and political institutions.

8 MPs who won awards for tackling discrimination, health inequality and poverty

Lucy Skoulding
3 December, 2020

All of these MPs have done significant work to support disadvantaged communities this year

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