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As the UK prepares to leave the EU, we look at Brexit's potential effect on Southeast Asian economies.
Most forms of Brexit will worsen the country’s finances and reduce space for new initiatives to address child poverty, social care and left-behind communities that some argue drove the Brexit vote, a report has found.
A cut in the availability of food and increase in prices, will hit 'vulnerable groups', the dossier says.
Ministers are planning a “hardship fund” for Britons impoverished by a no-deal Brexit.
THE Scottish Government has requested several changes to benefits from Westminster to prepare for a No-Deal Brexit.
Report from pro-EU campaign group warns of significant food price rises and “devasting impact on low-income families” if good deal isn’t reached.
The Trussell Trust said any form of Brexit would increase the demand for food banks.
The archbishop of Canterbury has said a no-deal Brexit would hit the poorest and most vulnerable people in the UK.
Homelessness is already rising and experts fear a hard Brexit could severely impact those who depend on social welfare.
“Our shelves are empty ... and at this point we are absolutely desperate for donations."
A catalogue of errors by the Home Office has led to a loss of access to £600,000 of EU funds earmarked for the most deprived people in Britain and has put a further £2.9m at risk, it can be revealed.
Three food parcels are handed out to struggling households every minute, as Tesco boss warns worst of supermarket price rises are ‘yet to come’.
Government’s new fund should at least equal EU’s near £2bn, Industrial Communities Alliance says.
DWP Cabinet member Amber Rudd has confirmed that the Government "have been looking at the possibility of having a hardship fund" to help people cope with food price inflation in the event of a no deal Brexit.
uthorities fear that new border checks introduced following a no-deal Brexit will slow down traffic through the nearby port of Cairnryan
Home Office ministers have been criticised for not spending millions of pounds of EU funding to help tackle problems areas such as food deprivation, homelessness and child poverty.
Peter Burkinshaw said rough sleepers "obstruct" the streets and called for a "national solution". / A controversial UKIP election candidate has been condemned after calling for rough sleepers in Cambridge to be "rounded up and put in a camp outside the city".
Britain leaving the EU could hit least-developed countries hard, with Cambodia most affected, report finds.