Bill Harvey: I ain’t got no home

I received an email from Legal & General last week. To my surprise, it wasn’t telling me my pension was now worthless or that I had missed a payment for something or other. Instead, it outlined the company’s support for a new review that shows how health inequality is rife and can only negatively impact upon business. Apparently, some people in charge need to be reminded that a healthy economy relies upon a healthy workforce.

Main author, Sir Michael Marmot, is director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and professor of epidemiology and public health at UCL. Introducing his review, he stated, ‘Inflation of more than 8%, and the government’s failure to deal with the cost of living crisis for the poorest people will put an extra 1.3 million people, including 500,000 children, below the poverty line.’