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Scottish Money
Scotland / 2 June 2025
Charity sets £920m child poverty challenge to Holyrood
2 June 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Strategic Command Headquarters, in Northwood, Greater London, May 22, 2025
Labour Party / 2 June 2025
Pathways to poverty: dissecting Labour’s cuts to disability benefits
2 June 2025

A devastating new 44-page report reveals Labour’s cuts will push 400,000 into poverty and cost disabled people up to £10,000 annually, while the government refuses to make savings by cutting spending on war instead, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY

People queue at the Ringcross Foodbank, in north London, March 3, 2021
Childcare / 2 June 2025
At least a quarter of children are in poverty in most constituencies, report warns
2 June 2025
School children in a classroom
Poverty / 29 May 2025
‘Priced out’ pupils missing school as they can't afford meals, uniforms and trips
29 May 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his opening speech during the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum of China and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Beijing, May 13, 2025
China / 20 May 2025
China ready to share its experience of fighting poverty
20 May 2025
Lord John Bird, founder of The Big Issue, April 12, 2021
Poverty Zero law / 12 May 2025
Big Issue founder is taking action to urge government to tackle poverty
12 May 2025
Shipping containers that were being used as temporary accommodation in Bordars Walk, Hanwell, west London, August 2019
Poverty / 30 April 2025
Number of children in temporary accommodation continues to rise
30 April 2025
A person using a banking app on their phone showing the amount of spending on bills, April 1, 2025
Britain / 22 April 2025
Families at risk as more tamper with energy meters to avoid falling into debt
22 April 2025
NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025
Child poverty forcing schools to pay for pupils’ beds and pillows, education leaders warn
17 April 2025
Children enjoying playing on swings
Britain / 27 March 2025
Child poverty hits record high
27 March 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
Reeves launches ‘cruel attack on disabled people’ instead of taxing the super-rich
26 March 2025
Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 25 March 2025
Living in poorest parts of England can cost you 5 years of your life, analysis warns
25 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t
Britain / 29 January 2025
In work poverty ‘shockingly high,’ TUC warns
29 January 2025
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister walks in the direction of the biggest bosses
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 27 January 2025
Poverty more rife in England last year than in the rest of Britain
27 January 2025
Children enjoying playing on swings
Britain / 6 January 2025
Working families are at greater risk of poverty than 20 years ago, research finds
6 January 2025
Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison
Britain / 29 December 2024
Union questions SNP vow to scrap two-child benefit cap on election year
29 December 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour Leader A
Britain / 27 December 2024
Scottish Labour challenged to stand with pensioners, not the Prime Minister
27 December 2024
A man rides a bicycle past Christmas decorations on a street
World / 22 December 2024
At least 32 killed in crowd crushes at Christmas charity events in Nigeria
22 December 2024
A basket of food at the Vale Pantry foodbank in Sturminster
Britain / 15 December 2024
Loneliness fuels surge in foodbank use alongside poverty, new report shows
15 December 2024
Stocks of food at the Trussell Trust Brent Foodbank, Neasden
Britain / 3 December 2024
Eradicate child poverty in 20 years, coalition of children's charities tell government
3 December 2024
RAPID RENEWAL: Changsha’s statue of Mao, the city at night
Features / 3 December 2024
China proves poverty can now be eliminated
3 December 2024
Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDWARDS
A photo of school girls walking to school
Britain / 25 November 2024
Government must reform Child Maintenance Service to tackle child poverty
25 November 2024
Homeless people sleeping rough
Britain / 25 November 2024
Most of Scotland backs more help for the poorest, new study shows
25 November 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with
Editorial: / 24 November 2024
A cruel campaign against benefit claimants won't solve Britain's health crisis
24 November 2024
Stocks of food at a foodbank
World / 20 November 2024
Consultation launched on decriminalisation of rough sleeping in Northern Ireland
20 November 2024
The Trussell Trust calls on NI executive to act on hunger after 35,000 emergency food parcels were distributed across the six counties
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 12 November 2024
Thousands more people dying in poverty in Britain, research reveals
12 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with representatives o
Editorial: / 5 November 2024
Starmer plays with fire on migration
5 November 2024
(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P
Britain / 1 November 2024
Majority of the public think Labour will fail to reduce poverty, study finds
1 November 2024
Finance Secretary Shona Robison at the Scottish Parliament,
Britain / 31 October 2024
Extra cash for Scotland will not scrap two-child cap, say SNP
31 October 2024
SNP Edinburgh South West Parlimentary candidate Joanna Cherr
Britain / 30 October 2024
Former SNP MP to lead pensioners' legal challenge to winter fuel payment cut
30 October 2024
A child playing
Britain / 20 October 2024
Two-child limit ‘entrenching poverty’, says new study
20 October 2024
A displaced child lines up for food distribution in Deir al-
World / 18 October 2024
More than a billion people in the world live in acute poverty, says new report
18 October 2024
A Trussell Trust foodbank in Blawarthill Parish Church, Glas
Britain / 15 October 2024
Two in five low-paid workers have used a food bank in past year, study finds
15 October 2024
Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard uses a loudhai
Britain / 9 October 2024
Former Scottish Labour leader and deputy back calls to scrap winter fuel payment means test
9 October 2024
Stocks of food at a foodbank
Britain / 9 October 2024
Hunger and hardship reaches record levels
9 October 2024
A vendor selling The Big Issue
Britain / 7 October 2024
Big Issue's statutory poverty reduction targets campaign backed by Scotland's First Minister
7 October 2024
Britain / 7 October 2024
Leading charity blasts politicians for lacking ‘political courage’ to tackle soaring poverty
7 October 2024
Britain / 7 October 2024
10,000 more children will fall into poverty if Labour keeps two-child benefit cap, analysis reveals
7 October 2024
Iain Duncan Smith introducing then Prime Minister Rishi Suna
Britain / 2 October 2024
Former Tory leader says removing two-child benefit cap ‘worth looking at’
2 October 2024
A gas hob with a bill from British Gas
Britain / 1 October 2024
Better targeted support needed to help 7.7m households struggling with fuel bills, research finds
1 October 2024
School children in a classroom
Britain / 1 October 2024
Majority of teachers witness children in ‘hygiene poverty,’ survey finds
1 October 2024
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, September 25, 2024
Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024
Labour faces calls to drop two-child benefit cap
25 September 2024
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 23 September 2024
Poverty in Britain ‘out of control’, Big Issue warns
23 September 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (left) and British Pri
Labour Conference 2024 / 21 September 2024
Where is Britain going?
21 September 2024
The government mantra that ‘things will only get worse’ is almost designed to fuel the far right – and grim warnings from Europe suggest Britain’s future direction of travel too, says DIANE ABBOTT MP
Britain / 18 September 2024
Unions, academics, campaigners and more sign letter to Starmer to end ‘foodbank Britain’
18 September 2024
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Jenny Gilruth tak
Britain / 12 September 2024
Holyrood rejects SNP bid to restore peak rail fares and ditch free school meal plans
12 September 2024
A general view of the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffol
Features / 6 September 2024
The billions for Sizewell C show Labour’s shameful nuclear hypocrisy
6 September 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER condemns Starmer’s willingness to let children go hungry and the elderly shiver while pouring billions into doomed nuclear projects that won’t address the climate crisis
Pupils eating school dinners
Britain / 29 August 2024
Over 1 in 4 teachers bring in food for starving pupils, poll finds
29 August 2024