In 'The Condition of the Working Class in England', Friedrich Engels wrote that, “When society places hundreds … in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death … when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life places them under conditions in which they cannot live … its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual … murder it remains… social murder.”

Following the UK Labour Government's plans to introduce £6bn worth of cuts to social security, Rory Hamilton is joined by the authors of 'Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK'.

David Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Health Inequalities at the University of Glasgow and previously the Programme Manager at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health.

Gerry McCartney is a Professor of Wellbeing Economy at the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health at Public Health Scotland.

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