“In 2020/21, around 421,000 Londoners relied on the good work of volunteers at food banks, charities, faith groups and other community groups for food. Record numbers of people live in poverty after years of austerity cuts and stagnating wages and benefits.”
The Morning Star have also reported how “79% of school staff are now helping students with dinner money”, as “soaring levels of child poverty have led to nearly four in five school staff helping pupils with dinner money, sparking renewed calls by unions and charities for universal free school meals.”
Ian Byrne, the MP for Liverpool West Derby is leading a Right To Food campaign in Parliament, to make access to food a legal right for all. Along with campaigners, Ian Byrne is wanting to have the “Right to Food” enshrined in law and to end the scandal of hunger and foodbanks once and for all.
As Sarah Woolley explained for the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union; “The signs of deepening hardship can be seen in every part of the UK, with longer and longer queues at foodbanks and baby formula under lock and key in supermarkets. Almost 1 in 5 (18%) households in the UK are now experiencing food insecurity and more than half a million children fell below the poverty line in the last year.”
On Saturday, the Liverpool Echo reported how chanting children led the charge, at a "hunger march" through the streets of Liverpool as hundreds of people rallied for the right to food.
Demonstrations also took place in London and Belfast, with protesters claiming that "hunger is a political choice" of the British Government.
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