‘Deep cuts to public services do not work and work does not pay for too many people’.

Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston, presented his report on UK poverty in front of the UN Human Rights Council.

In his summary he said: ‘although  the  United  Kingdom  is  the world’s  fifth  largest  economy,  one  fifth  of  its population  (14  million  people)  live  in  poverty,  and  1.5  million  of  them  experienced destitution  in  2017.