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Big Issue founder on UK poverty levels
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird looks at failing school figures, "using social security for social opportunity", prisons, and the role of tax credits.
He told Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn: "If you are in poverty, you are not in democracy because... you are not involved in the debate."
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