Without swift action, the cost-of-living crisis risks driving even more vulnerable people into the hands of criminal lenders.
The Government can’t deliver economic prosperity for its electoral coalition without also meeting social challenges.
The fourth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
It was described earlier this week as ‘the election issue yet to bark’. But it seems that this sleeping dog has finally awoken.
Where George Cadbury led, Pret a Manger, Microsoft and Nationwide now follow.
Universal Support was always meant to sit alongside Universal Credit, specifically focused on helping written-off groups. But it was cut by an impecunious Treasury.