Ex-homelessness tsar launches food appeal and urges 'Beveridge moment'

Dame Louise Casey makes plea as report shows 1 million people in UK struggle for food

Former government adviser Dame Louise Casey has urged Boris Johnson to deliver a Beveridge moment" and overhaul welfare, as she launched an urgent appeal for public donations of food and money to get the poorest through winter.

Harking back to Sir William Beveridge's 1942 report that led to the founding of the welfare state, Casey said an equivalent to the Sage expert panel of scientists advising on the response to Covid-19 was needed to tackle sharp rises in poverty and to work out how the legacy of this pandemic isn't the quadrupling of food banks".

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