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Living standards are not improving for everyone | Letter

Dr Jenny Patient highlights poverty in Sheffield in response to remarks by the environment secretary, Steve Reed, on Labour’s progressSteve Reed, the environment secretary, is reported as saying that changes to living standards are happening, but for all too many people these are not materialising (‘We’ve made progress’: environment secretary is upbeat despite Labour’s struggles, 6 July).In my part of inner-city Sheffield, residents are often in overcrowded and expensive housing, with energy and food bills at unaffordable levels for their precarious incomes. Our local environment is challenged by fly-tipping and vandalism, with which our austerity-struck council and services cannot keep up. A high proportion of our local residents cannot afford days out, let alone holidays when they might take their children swimming in the sea. Continue reading...

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