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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
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with Sue Hayman, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, help to sort out food donated to a food bank donation point at Whitehawk Football Club during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton

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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