This policy will likely prove popular with the public, especially the Reform-curious parts of the electorate which Labour is ...

A figure for child poverty was not attempted until 1965, when Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend estimated that 2.25 million ...

Today, the Tory grandee was sworn into the House of Lords, entering the nobility at long last.

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The novel promises an ending. But world events will not be so neatly contained.

For what do you do when redundancy hits, or cancer is diagnosed, or there’s a death in the family? How do you cope with the extra expenses that fall on family budgets when, already on low wages or low ...

Our current hegemony over European competitions disguises a rot at the heart of the game.

What was true at the turn of the last century is true now: families doing the right thing in the United Kingdom shouldn’t be ...

Poverty scars the lives and life chances of our children. It is shameful that child poverty has increased by 700,000 since 2010.” These are words you might expect from the Child Poverty Action Group – ...

In fact, it’s not a word I’ve ever used at all. It means the tendency to cause division or to sub-divide into separate groups ...

The UK’s next wave of public service reform must focus on outcomes, prevention and empowering households – not just ...

The former Labour prime minister speaks to the New Statesman Podcast about how the government can reduce levels of child poverty.