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The Tories do not deserve a cross in any ballot paper box as poverty plagues the nation

Here, in 21st-century Scotland, some families can no longer afford packs of nappies, or whole packets of flour or sugar.

Instead they have to buy their supplies one item at a time.

In one of the richest countries in the world, more than one in five people lived in poverty even before the Covid-19 pandemic struck.

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