Schools will continue to help the vulnerable even if the government won’t
Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke has said that he didn’t vote to extend free school meals during holidays in…
Poverty
Universal basic income would offer a safety net as we adjust to the new normal
Google ‘universal basic income’ and 219,000,000 results pop up in an instant. Clearly, the idea of a UBI…
900,000 children under lockdown will lose free school meals, warns Labour
Nearly one million children in areas under Tier 2 and Tier 3 restrictions are set to lose access…
Emma Lewell-Buck: “No child should go hungry in a country as wealthy as ours”
Emma Lewell-Buck, Labour MP for South Shields since 2013, will present a ten minute rule motion to the…
Child hunger doesn’t stop for the holidays. Extend free school meals
NHS surcharges for migrant workers. The A-level results fiasco. The evictions ban. The government has been forced to…
Basic income must become part of a new settlement, for a new post-Covid age
I read with real interest Anna Coote’s article earlier this week, which questioned the arguments and assumptions behind…
Scrapping DfID amid a global crisis is wrong. The Co-op Party will fight it
The Department for International Development, set up under the last Labour government to co-ordinate international aid and development,…
Eat Out to Help Out. Is this the Chancellor’s ‘let them eat cake’ moment?
“We can all eat out to help out,” said Rishi Sunak, announcing his initiative to subsidise restaurant-goers to…
The betrayal of the Make Poverty History generation
15 years ago today, I stood in The Meadows of Edinburgh as over a quarter of a million…
Why the DfID and FCO merger is a mistake
The Department for International Development (DfID) was created under a Labour government in 1997 as an independent department…
