UN report compares Tory welfare policies to creation of workhouses

UN report compares Tory welfare policies to creation of workhouses
Ministers in denial about impact of austerity since 2010, says poverty expert
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/22/un-report-compares-tory-welfare-reforms-to-creation-of-workhouses

UN tears into Tory-led austerity as 'ideological project causing pain and misery' in devastating report on UK poverty crisis
In damning indictment of British welfare policies, UN rapporteur on extreme poverty says successive governments continued to inflict austerity 'largely unabated, despite the tragic social consequences'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-poverty-austerity-uk-universal-credit-report-philip-alston-a8924576.html

DWP policies compared to a Victorian workhouse in searing UN Rapporteur report
The report says Britain's welfare safety net has been "systematically eroded" - with people selling sex for shelter and living lives that are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". The DWP hit back furiously branding it "barely believable"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-policies-compared-victorian-workhouse-16181149

Amber Rudd to lodge complaint over UN's austerity report
Rudd will say Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, is biased
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/22/amber-rudd-to-lodge-complaint-over-un-austerity-report

.....well she would say that.

Nothing changes!

"My final report on poverty in the #UK is now available online. I found that the Government is doubling down on anti-poor policies that have led to the systematic immiseration of millions across Great Britain":

https://t.co/Uznr6M3EP4 #UKPoverty pic.twitter.com/MoIFDWPYOq

— Philip Alston (@Alston_UNSR) May 22, 2019

https://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2019/05/23/un-report-on-poverty-in-britain-welfare-to-workhouses/

The UN has condemned Tory welfare policies. Labour must end this shame
Like Margaret Thatcher, this government thinks poverty is a personality defect rather than a result of its policies
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/22/un-tory-welfare-policies-labour-policies

UN poverty expert hits back over UK ministers' 'denial of facts'
Philip Alston says he thought government response to his report might be a spoof
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/24/un-poverty-expert-hits-back-over-uk-ministers-denial-of-facts-philip-alston

DWP civil servant praises UN poverty report ministers dismissed as ‘barely believable’
A senior Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) official has told MPs that a highly-critical UN report on poverty in the UK was “factually correct” and “made a lot of good points”, despite ministers repeatedly attacking its accuracy.
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-civil-servant-praises-un-poverty-report-ministers-dismissed-as-barely-believable/