'We can no longer accept broken economic systems', cost-of-living summit told

Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance, said the crisis is like “no other” he has seen in the three decades since the network was established

IT is time to put an end to the “exploitation of working people” and to no longer accept “broken economic systems”, delegates at a cost-of-living summit in Glasgow have heard.

The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and the Poverty Alliance hosted the conference on Friday, with attendees working together to develop a joint platform on how to tackle the ongoing crisis.