When the cost of everything is spiralling, from housing to fuel and food, millions of ordinary people are facing an ever greater struggle to get by.

Now a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says millions of people in the UK would need to double their income to escape poverty.

Their damning report reveals the extent of hardship and desperation across the country - describing it as "social failure, at scale".

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