MORE families in Britain will be unable to afford a funeral for their loved ones as the cost-of-living crisis leaves millions struggling to cope, campaigners have warned. 

As millions of pounds was spent last month on Elizabeth Windsor’s state funeral, attention was called online to the fact that tens of thousands of ordinary people struggle each year to afford to pay for even the most basic funerals for their relatives and friends. 

And campaigners now warn that the scandal of surging funeral poverty is set to worsen as soaring energy costs squeeze already stretched incomes.