1 million more people in UK face poverty this winter, analysis shows

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Thinktank urges government to blunt impact of rising energy prices, as deprivation levels hit 20-year highMore than 1 million more people will be forced into poverty this winter, pushing UK deprivation levels to their highest for two decades – even if the government freezes energy prices at current levels, according to a conservative thinktank.The Legatum Institute, led by the Conservative peer and former government adviser Philippa Stroud, estimated that even if the energy price cap was held at its summer rate of £1,971, another 1.3 million people would slide below the relative poverty lin ...

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