The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families w…

Trussell report finds that higher levels of poverty mean Britain is losing out on £38bn a year of potential output Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour’s tough stance on benefits is costing Britain’s economy billions of pounds each year while adding to the pressure on public services by pushing more people into poverty. With the government under fire over its planned benefit cuts, the anti-poverty charity Trussell said that failing to tackle hunger and hardship would have severe human costs and cause damage to the wider economy and public finances. Continue reading...

Rolling coverage of the UK's child poverty emergency from journalist, Terri White. News, opinion, analysis, real stories and expert interviews, through a lens of lived experience. Click to read Know C...