Book review: Breadline Britain: The Rise Of Mass Poverty

Breadline Britain: The Rise Of Mass Poverty

When Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack wrote the pioneering Poor Britain, in 1985 — a response to the first ‘Breadline Britain’ survey, of 1983 — they probably hoped it would lead to a rise in living conditions for the people whose plight they documented.

They certainly didn’t imagine how much worse things would become.