Why firefighters are calling for a Labour vote

IN 2010, the Trussell Trust handed out 60,000 food parcels. In 2022-23, it handed out just under 3 million. Across the developed world, real wages are on average 8.8 per cent higher than they were in 2008; in Britain, they are 2.7 per cent lower. Meanwhile, Britain is home to 165 billionaires. Its richest 350 families have a combined wealth of £795 billion, a sum roughly equivalent to the GDP of Turkey or the Netherlands.