Kate Green MP Articles

Food banks shame us all – it’s time to hold the government to account. In austerity Britain, children are going to bed hungry and families are facing the distress and humiliation of queuing for emergency food parcels. The coalition government says ‘we’re all in this...

This week’s Households Below Average Income figures, which are due to be published on Thursday, are important because they will show the degree of success achieved in meeting the target to halve child poverty by 2010, on the way to Tony Blair’s ambitious aim of ending...

This week, to mark International Women’s Day, Labour’s commission on women’s safety, Everywoman Safe Everywhere, is publishing its first report. I’ve been proud to serve as a member of the commission, alongside Vera Baird QC, who’s chaired it so ably, and my brilliant...

The government’s efforts to show how women-friendly it is would be almost laughable – if they didn’t reveal a profound indifference to the real impact its policies are having on women’s lives. Struggling to make ends meet, worries about unemployment, cuts to help with...