“It’s a system failure”: Tory “warm bank” constituents signal election warning
Disgruntled “warm bank” users in Conservative seats are a predictor of the party’s electoral wipeout.
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The Policy Ask with Matt Downie: “There is no excuse for people to be living and dying on our streets”
The CEO of Crisis on rogue landlords, the inhumanity of the “hostile environment” mantra and Finland’s housing-first policy.
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Does your salary mean you’re rich? What makes you upper, middle or working class? We asked the British public
In exclusive polling for the New Statesman by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, voters tell us what they think are high…
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“It’s constant anxiety”: inside the crisis in child social care
The murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes revealed shocking shortcomings in the UK’s social care system. What is being…
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Gordon Brown: Why it’s time to take the shame out of need
As the cost-of-living crisis pushes more and more people into poverty, charities have become the last line of defence.
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Michael Marmot: “Stress associated with poverty will damage children”
The health inequalities expert on how rising prices are making us ill.
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Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0
Britons on low incomes dread the Liz Truss government’s “reverse Robin Hood” plan, which prioritises bankers over benefit claimants.
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The cost-of-living crisis is pushing disabled people into poverty
Benefits are not keeping up with rising bills.
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