Stewart Lansley is the author of The Richer, the Poorer, How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor, a 200-year history, 2021, Bristol University Press. He is a visiting fellow at the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and an Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Is the opposition equal to the challenge?
Stewart Lansley provides a measure of the task faced by any party that might genuinely seek to tackle poverty in the UK. Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that a Labour