Child poverty rate among rural Dumfries and Galloway communities hits record high

What’s the point of a Labour government that allows child poverty?

Let’s be truly unfashionable and talk of political morality: what is the moral core of social democracy? I’m talking not of “the government” but the individuals sitting around the cabinet table: what are the values they rely on when, for instance, taking decisions about wealth and poverty? This is timely for two reasons. First, the near-at-hand one. As Labour moves closer to right-wing populist thinking on immigration curbs, welfare cuts and soc…

Child poverty rate among rural Dumfries and Galloway communities hits record high

New figures show there has been a huge increase in rural poverty rates over the past 15 years.