Mr Brown is expected to call for a ‘new coalition of compassion for children that will create a chain of hope for children ...

Labour leader will also call for Rachel Reeves to raise taxes on gambling firms to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap ...

Child poverty in the UK has labelled as a "shameful epidemic" by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The ex-Labour leader is ...

Nearly a quarter of Labour MPs say increasing taxes could enable to the government to lift the two-child benefit cap.

In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the ...

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...

Thousands of people have marched through central Edinburgh calling for more action to tackle poverty in Scotland. The ...

Backed by leading anti-poverty and children’s charities, Big Issue wants to see the government setting clear targets to ...

SLASHING funding for Britain’s largest home insulation programme would be a “short-sighted act of betrayal,” fuel poverty ...

After more than a year in power, Labour has failed to reverse the cuts to social security that have worsened health ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and ...