The Big Issue

MY PITCH

LOUIS HAGUE, 27

I’ve been selling the magazine around three years. It was during the pandemic – I was working at an agency stocking the shelves in Tesco and putting displays together in B&Q before Covid. I was also working in a factory, but I couldn’t keep that up because I had to get there for six in the morning every single day. I was getting taxis

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