Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris

A record 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty, says Oxfam .

Oxfam calls the cuts to disability and sickness benefits morally repugnant’ The government has triggered a huge outbreak of the kind of awful fear I heard first -hand last week .

I spoke to someone whose next official benefits assessment might send their income plummeting.

The health secretary, Wes Streeting , has endorsed the fashionable idea that mental illness is “overdiagnosed” Darren Jones , the chief secretary to the Treasury , compared the benefit changes to taking some of his children’s pocket money to push them into getting a Saturday job.

Meanwhile, a real crisis of public health manifested in conditions such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and all the rest festers away.