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May 17, 2022 @ 11:53
Two in five Universal Credit claims are affected by deductions with ~2 million UC payments below levels officially set by the government: https://t.co/8JTyL4Ae2Y
This doesn't just undermine adequacy of benefits, it also compromises the government's levelling up agenda
May 9, 2022 @ 6:36
My comment on these figures on food insecurity:
"If 1 household in 7 is food insecure, society is failing in a fundamental way. These figures on food insecurity are all the more chilling because the problem is soluble." https://t.co/KKYU6XDIPv
Apr 27, 2022 @ 13:41
Food banks, their staff & volunteers are doing incredibly important work to support families who have fallen through the gaping holes of our inadequate social security safety net.
But emergency food aid is not a long-term, sustainable nor dignified response to poverty. https://t.co/rju1lroYEL
Apr 18, 2022 @ 12:18
As @TorstenBell says, the main way people become wealthy in Britain today is to make sure that they have rich parents! You can 'be the best that you can be', be a 'striver not a shirker' etc. but in our Tory meritocracy being born privileged is what makes most of the difference. https://t.co/mE8xqu51ub