Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs on the preventable excess deaths that could follow from the chancellor’s policy decisions
Between August 2018 and July 2019, the UK had more than 23,000 excess winter deaths. Such deaths are the direct and indirect outcomes of poverty-inducing policies that stretch the poorest in society financially, sometimes to the point of choosing between eating and heating.
We are now entering a foreseeable (and foreseen) fuel crisis, with a cost of living crisis that is likely to bypass the top 10% of earners in the UK, while exacerbating illness, hunger, mental health problems and of course excess winter deaths across other parts of society.
