A political faux-pas?

The Bishops correctly describe the problem of hunger and other shortages among Britain’s hardesthit families but play into a political debate in which they are at risk of undermining their own credibility.

They posit the debate largely in terms of opposition to welfare reforms, ignoring other factors such as indebtedness, inflation, over-taxation of the poor, low wages, over-regulation of businesses and a myriad of other causes. But they also politicise the debate by placing the letter signed by 27 of their number in the Labour-supporting tabloid, the Daily Mirror.

They should not be playing party politics with hunger.