We have allowed poverty to become normalised in our country | Letters

2026-02-01 - 16:55

Readers respond to deepening poverty in the UK and ways to address it Your editorial on deepening poverty in the UK (27 January) rightly condemns the decade and a half (and counting) of austerity. Millions of people’s lives have been knowingly worsened by the state. To compound this, countless shared neighbourhood spaces have been closed or sold off, meaning there is less opportunity for community togetherness just when it is most needed. The UK has the political and financial resources to create a society full of opportunity and security. Instead, successive governments have allowed poverty to continue and ultra-individualism to become normalised. Continue reading...