In the middle of this commercial fuss and furore, there were continuing stories about food poverty. We might be the sixth-richest nation in the world, but in 2015, and with just four months until a general election, food poverty shames us all.
Feeding Britain, the all-party parliamentary report on hunger in the UK, made it explicit - many people, including a lot in full-time work, are hungry today because of low pay, a harsh benefits and sanctions regime, and social disconnection. Average real pay has dropped by nine per cent in real terms since 2001, with the lowest-paid workers and those on benefits doing worst of all, whether they live in the affluent south-east or elsewhere.
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