Day: November 7, 2017

    On a street lined with rows of multi-million pound Edwardian houses and Mercedes, Porsches and BMWs, lies the Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank in South West London. Housed within a church and open twice a week, the foodbank helps hundreds of people a year with emergency parcels. Despite its unlikely location, the wealthy London borough’s part in the roll out of Universal Credit has seen demand across the area’s three foodbanks soar by 94%, figures seen by HuffPost UK reveal. Sitting at a table looking at the list of tinned and fresh goods available with her daughter and grand-daughter is Maggie Millard. I’ve been here four times since the beginning of last month, the 57-year-old tells HuffPost. I was moved from [Employment Support Allowance] and onto Universal Credit. As so...

    Theresa May is under intense pressure to sack Boris Johnson amid fears that his latest diplomatic blunder could add an extra five years to the jail term of a British-Iranian charity worker. Already reeling from the Westminster sex harassment scandal, the PM tried to declare full confidence in both Johnson and International Development Secretary Priti Patel, who was dragged into a separate row involving Israel. The Prime Minister defended both her Cabinet ministers for doing a good job despite calls for both of them to be fired. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on a family holiday in Iran last year when she was arrested for spying in Tehran, a claim vigorously denied by the British government and her family. But Johnson told MPs last week that the 38-year-old had been teaching...