Labour demands Covid-19 health inequalities strategy
Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Jonathan Ashworth has called on the government to implement a health inequalities…
Poverty
McDonnell sets three tests for Tory budget on austerity, poverty and climate
John McDonnell is planning to set out three tests against which Labour will judge the first budget of…
WATCH: McDonnell says Labour’s commitment on poverty is radical but achievable
John McDonnell delivered a speech on the economy today, declaring that Labour’s manifesto commitments on poverty are “achievable…
Tories have failed 10 tests for tackling poverty, says Labour report
Labour has released a new report identifying ten ways in which the Tories have “entrenched poverty across Britain”…
Scotland must be more than a passive receiver of cruel policies from Westminster
On taking office as Scotland’s First Minister in 1999, Donald Dewar noted that the new Scottish Parliament had…
Feed the Future: How Southampton is tackling the child hunger crisis
Whilst the Brexit melodrama continues to absorb the collective attention of parliament and the media, nearly 17,000 of…
To achieve social justice, Labour’s manifesto must embrace social rights
When the UN’s expert on human rights and extreme poverty recently chronicled the impact of the British government’s…
What would a new social contract look like?
77 years on from the Beveridge Report, with poverty and inequality running rampant, it is clear that we…
The case for a new social contract with the British people
It’s clear to most people and certainly to anyone who has had the misfortune to have to use…
The UK economy is going very wrong, and we can’t just treat the symptoms
Today I’m launching Making Ends Meet, a campaign to change our economy and not just to treat the…
