The ‘get tough’ approach to sick and disabled welfare claimants promoted by the big party players in the run up to this General Election, and in recent media rhetoric, is not just morally cheap, says Savi Hensman. It is reflective of a profoundly inadequate policy approach which ends up scapegoating those we should be supporting most.

A Catholic group has said that the Conservative and Labour Party may undermine progress towards a 'more equal and more cohesive society' with their policies on Gypsy and Traveller communities.

The thing that should scare both Labour and Tories alike is that the Lib Dem surge has little to do with its policies, says Jonathan Bartley.

Party leaders will mark the election campaign ‘World Poverty Day’ tomorrow (Sunday 18 April) by outlining their visions of how the UK should act on its responsibility to the wider world.