From unheated homes to older stress in families making ends meet, British children are exposed to health, social and educational riskswarned a report from the Institute for Health Equity (IHE)research center on inequalities.
This will mean that “thousands of people will die sooner than they should and, in addition to lung damage in children (in cold homes), toxic stress can permanently affect your brain development“, summed up in a statement its director, Michael Marmot.
Without government intervention, the institute fears a “major humanitarian crisis” in the UK, which would plunge more than half of British households into energy poverty in January.
Regulated energy tariffs will rise by 80% from October in the United Kingdom and it is expected that the inflation exceed 13% at the end of the year. The gas and electricity bills they could increase further in 2023.
Historic economic crisis in the UK
The real disposable income of households, adjusted for inflation, will be reduced by 10% in total throughout this year and next, the biggest drop in living standards in a centuryaccording to the group of experts Resolution Foundation.
This would mean 3,000 pounds ($3,500) less a year for the average household and “the crisis in living standards will extend well beyond this winter, into next year and 2024,” the group adds in another study published on Thursday.
The number of people “living in absolute poverty” could increase by three millionup to a total of 14 million, according to the foundation, for whom an aid of tens of billions of pounds from the next government is inevitable.
These studies “highlight the growing difficulties of the British economy,” said Susannah Streeter, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdownand the prospect of “an equally gloomy winter” pushed the pound to a new low against the dollar, approaching its lowest level since 1985.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Trussfavorite to succeed the resigning prime minister Boris Johnson on Monday, has been in favor of the tax cuts but not of the direct aid.
However, she assured Thursday in the pages of the popular newspaper The Sun that if she becomes head of government of the United Kingdom “it will provide immediate support so that people do not face unaffordable fuel bills.”
Source: Ambito
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