The Universal Credit Uplift. Easy in, but not easy out.

There may some ingenious halfway house solution. But it is hard to say how extending it for another year can be avoided.

Responding to Rashford

Until Ministers have a clear direction in which to steer the ship of anti-poverty policy, they will be at the mercy of the passengers.

Philippa Stroud: The Coalition stopped officially measuring poverty – which left its successor unsighted over free schools meals

We are allowing others to create a narrative for us, and in the absence of an agreed poverty measure and subsequent strategy, we always will.

Matthew Oakley: Levelling up. We need to measure it in order to deliver it – and know that it’s worked

The first report of a new commission finds that disparities are just as apparent within regions, cities and towns as they are between them. 

Phillipa Stroud: Coronavirus has hit those in poverty hardest. The Government must support employment, fast.

The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.