The UN is Right: Families in UK Are Going Hungry

Expand Sign outside Wisbech food bank in Cambridgeshire, UK © 2018 Human Rights Watch The United Nations expert on poverty and human rights has warned that the UK government is inflicting “unnecessary misery” on people living in poverty. Professor Philip Alston’s preliminary findings of his 11-day visit to the country found the government’s approach to welfare support over the last decade “punitive, mean-spirited and often callous.” Some have sought to dismiss Alston’s findings as a “shocking rant” based on only a brief visit. But anyone who engaged with his team, as I did, will know this…

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