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Danny Dorling: ‘It is very hard to find one positive thing that Labour have done so far in government’
Britain’s leading expert on inequality has slammed the new Labour government for ignoring the plight of children in poverty as he prepares to visit Bristol to discuss his latest book, Peak Injustice.
“Labour claim to have done a huge amount in their first 100 days, but what have they done to improve the lives of children?” asked Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at Oxford, who is speaking at Design West at 6.30pm on Tuesday.
“It is very hard to find one positive thing to point to out of the 17 bills so far introduced, including the two that have been passed,” said Dorling, who also addresses issues in housing, health, employment and education in his work.
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“Children have no vote, but they will, and their parents and grandparents and the rest of society care. Most children in the UK with two siblings now go hungry several times a month – 56 per cent of them.”
Dorling, who taught geography at the University of Bristol between 1996 and 2000, is a prodigious author, with titles ranging from The Grim Reaper’s Road Map: an atlas of mortality in Britain to Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire and Finntopia: What We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest Country.
Bristol tech entrepreneur and pay gap expert Dr Zara Nanu will introduce Dorling at the event, which is organised by Just About Books and supported by Distinctive Communications. Peak Injustice, published by Bristol’s Policy Press, will be on sale on the night.
For more information and tickets, visit www.designwest.org.uk/whats-on/danny-dorling-peak-injustice
Main photo: Danny Dorling
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