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Islington North MP says coronavirus crisis has ‘thrown up in stark relief, the inequalities of our society’.
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘I want us to move on a bit further on our attitudes towards security and stability’
ISLINGTON North MP Jeremy Corbyn has called for some form of universal basic income (UBI) amid concerns that the most vulnerable residents are being pushed into poverty because of Covid-19.
He argued for the measure at the online AGM of Islington People’s Rights on Tuesday, telling members that the current benefits system sanctions people “willy nilly, sometimes very, very unfairly”.
He said: “I want us to move on a bit further on our attitudes towards security and stability in our society. I’ve been following this debate quite carefully.”