SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Queues at foodbanks and hungry children: why we need a ‘Right to Food’
MATTHEW TURNER of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights explains how they will extend the concept to social as well as legal protections

BRITAIN is the fifth-largest economy in the world. We are a world leader in financial and legal services, with the City of London acting as an epicentre of global finance.
We still produce high-quality cars, aircraft, machinery and even steel. Students travel from across the globe to study at our prestigious universities, and millions of tourists come every year to learn about our history. Money is constantly flowing into Britain, and much of it makes its way into the Treasury coffers.
And yet at the same time, in this same country, there are tens of thousands of families who do not have enough food to live.
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