• An article (Balancing the books on the backs of the poor, 13 March, p14) erred in saying the Trussell Trust “has consistently reported, for the last 10 years, that more than half the people referred to its food banks for emergency aid are there because they are in debt to the Department for Work and Pensions”. In fact the trust’s latest figures (for 2020) show 47% of referred users were in debt to the DWP, up from 26% in 2018, which was the first year this data was collected. The trust also says debts may combine with broader social security issues in driving these referrals.
• The Labour MP Tulip Siddiq wrote that the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, accepted the UK’s debt to Iran was “legitimate” and acknowledged the link between that debt and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release; Siddiq did not write that Truss described the link itself as legitimate as we stated in a news article (Family’s MP says Johnson’s ‘very poor grasp’ of case led to errors, 20 March, p16).
• An article about a rewrite of London Calling for the war on Ukraine said the original song was written by the Clash’s Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. While they played key roles in its composition, the song is primarily credited to the band (Kyiv calling: Clash classic reborn as an anthem of resistance, 20 March, p10).
• We misdescribed the human rights organisation Stand for All as a charity (Refugee sponsorship scheme is ‘unworkable’ unless visa red tape is removed, warns Labour, 20 March, p6).
Other recently amended articles include:
‘We have come to protect you,’ Russian soldiers told Ukrainian man they’d shot
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