I have spent much of the last few months feeling furious, and I know many readers have too: a rage driven by the fact that in the sixth largest economy in the world, there are so many children going to school hungry, so many families sitting freezing in the cold.
Right now, people in Britain are being forced to skip meals. They are too scared to switch on the heating. They can’t afford to buy baby formula. One school told us about children “pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox” because they did not qualify for free school meals and didn’t want their friends to know there was no food at home. This is now an emergency facing millions of people, many of whom have never found themselves in this position before.
