Dawn Foster : (4)

" Cooking requires time, effort and fuel: increasing numbers of people I’ve visited can’t even afford to turn on the kettle for a cup of tea as they eke out every penny to feed their extortionate gas and electric meters. " - Dawn Foster

" There is no golden age of public spending for the working class under any form of Conservative future, only the endless pursuit of tax breaks for the comfortably-off. " - Dawn Foster

" If shelter is a human right, why not create a national housing service to provide homes for everyone who doesn’t have one? " - Dawn Foster

" Working within newspapers, so many of them are so used to the status quo, they’re so invested in lobby journalism, and assuming that all politics happens in Westminster… but doing social affairs, I spend a lot of time out of London speaking to people who have been hit by cuts, or disabled, or who have been made unemployed. " - Dawn Foster