EXPLAINED: 27 | Vintage Vibes

Starmer under mounting pressure to lift two-child benefit cap

Lifting the two-child benefit cap is set to be the top recommendation of Keir Starmer’s child poverty taskforce

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2025

Scrapping controversial two-child benefit limit would reduce poverty

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The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2025

Expansion of poverty programme to deliver ‘lasting change,’ announced by John Swinney

FIRST Minister John Swinney has announced an expansion of the integrated poverty support programme in Scotland ...

The National (Scotland) · Sep 24, 2025

Storm in your teacup: How the climate crisis threatens Kenya’s tea trade

ON THE GROUND: Marking Fairtrade Fortnight, tea farmers in Kenya – a country which provides around half of the tea we drink in the UK – tell Nick Ferris that they are increasingly threatened by climate change and chronic poverty

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2025

Targeted social tariff could lift millions out of fuel poverty – report

Energy firm Ovo has urged the Government and industry to work together to find a ‘better way’ of identifying customers in need.

Evening Standard · Sep 21, 2025

Sebabatso Mosamo, an AP visual journalist in South Africa, has died

Sebabatso Mosamo, an Associated Press visual journalist in South Africa who documented elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and her country’s struggle with poverty and violence, has died

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2025

Man who received Christmas shoebox is givng back 30 years on

A father-of-three, who received the gift of a Christmas shoebox as a child, is recreating the gesture for other children affected by poverty.

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2025

Lucy Powell: Labour should raise gambling taxes to axe two-child benefit cap

Deputy leadership candidate says party needs to be ‘clear that our objective is to lift children out of poverty’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2025

Labour should consider gambling tax rise to fund axing two-child cap – Powell

The MP said she would be ‘a strong independent choice’ for deputy Labour leader.

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2025

Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell to compete for Labour deputy leadership

They will take part in a hustings on the last day of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool before members vote in October.

Evening Standard · Sep 19, 2025