Between August 2018 and July 2019, the UK had more than 23,000 excess winter deaths. Such deaths are the direct and indirect outcomes of poverty-inducing policies that stretch the poorest in society financially, sometimes to the point of choosing between eating and heating.
We are now entering a foreseeable (and foreseen) fuel crisis, with a cost of living crisis that is likely to bypass the top 10% of earners in the UK, while exacerbating illness, hunger, mental health problems and of course excess winter deaths across other parts of society.
