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CAMPAIGNERS and union activists will picket an Asda store in Hull today in protest as supermarket prices rise and hundreds of thousands of people face food poverty.
Union campaigning group Unite Community says supermarkets are profiteering, making billions in profits.
Asda’s profits more than doubled to £1.01 billion in 2021, while today 20 per cent of Hull residents — 53,420 people — live in food poverty, according to union research.
The wealth of the super-rich grows by £35 million daily while our NHS and schools collapse — that’s why thousands of us will be gathering in London demanding that the billionaires foot the bill for the many crises they have caused, writes TYRONE SCOTT
The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM
