🚨 Old habits die hard: The manifesto commitment to end mass dependence on emergency food parcels

In just 16 years, a handful of food banks in the UK have proliferated into thousands of community-run food parcel distribution centres. In 2024, Labour’s election manifesto rightly referred to the need for these as a “moral scar on our society.” The party committed to ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels in the UK.1Two years later, the Labour government has made some steps towards this by scrapping the poverty inducing two child benefit limit and introducing new funding through…

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