Nearly 40% of British families, or 8.1 million people, live below the income level regarded as the minimum needed to play a part on society
Chancellor George Osborne will need to make cuts “on a colossal scale” to fulfil his plans he laid out in the Autumn Statement, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.
A government-commissioned report has warned that the decade 2010-2020 could mark a watershed moment where the general rise in living standards do not reach the poorest and most vulnerable in society.
Thousands of NHS workers, including nurses and ambulance staff, have begun a four-hour walk out over pay.
Osborne’s crowd-pleasing rhetoric is based on a rewriting of history (he has “photoshopped” the economic realities) and a distorted use of data.