US capitalism casts millions of citizens aside, yet Badenoch and Farage still laud it

Rising poverty levels in the US matter in Europe because it is the direct result of a particular form of capitalism that rightwing parties say should be adopted. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Next month, Donald Trump will welcome a poverty-stricken family to peruse his plans for a $300m glitzy state ballroom in the White House. The event will be staged as part of National Poverty in America Awareness Month, the time every year when charities document the number of US residents surviving on low incomes.

Of course, the president will do no such thing, preferring to summon the press to watch him rub shoulders with the billionaire class as he did at last month’s black tie dinner for the Saudi ruler and his entourage.