Winter is always a particularly difficult time for rough sleepers in the UK, and with the number of homeless on the rise the need to protect them from the elements is too. Human Appeal have responded by partnering with Hands On London to collect and redistribute used coats to those who need them. Sarah checked in with the NGO’s UK Programmes Manager Samra Said to find out more about their Wrap Up campaign, which runs this week, and how people can support it.
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Peter Skilling: Jacindamania 2017, hope & fear on the campaign trail
In late-July 2017, two months prior to New Zealand’s general election, its Labour Party recorded an historically awful poll result: its 23% popularity was roughly half that of its National Party rival.
By August 1, Jacinda Ardern had replaced Andrew Little as Party leader. Her campaign — based around a promise to address major challenges in the areas of housing, child poverty, water quality and climate change — had a dramatic impact on the Party’s fortunes, and Labour’s final election result was 37%. (Note, though, that support for the centre-left Labour-Green bloc increased by a more modest amount: from 38% in late July to 43%. And National’s election result (44%) was an improvement on its late-July number.)
With the support of New Zealand First, Ardern is now Prime Minister: an outcome that seemed highly unlikely at the end of July.
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