UK’s austerity policy ‘has driven people into poverty’

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An “ideological” pursuit of austerity has replaced Britain’s social safety net with a “harsh and uncaring ethos”, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston.

The government has “remained determinedly in a state of denial” about the scale of poverty ...