Lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on nation’s social fabric, report says
by Jordan Reynolds
Dec 10, 2023
4 minutes
Covid lockdowns had a “catastrophic effect” on the nation’s social fabric and the most disadvantaged are no better off now than at the time of the financial crash, a new report says.
The UK is in danger of sliding back into the Two Nations of the Victorian era marked by a widening gap between mainstream society and a depressed and poverty-stricken underclass, according to an inquiry by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).
Some 13.4 million people lead lives marred by family fragility, stagnant wages, poor housing, chronic ill-health, and crime, the centre says.
The CSJ’s Social Justice
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