“Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in receiving social security, and the cruel and unfair Bedroom Tax.”

Luciana Berger is a British politician. She served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019, and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2025. She is associated with Labour, the Co-operative Party, the Liberal Democrats, and later returned to Labour. Berger was a founding member of The Independent Group, which later became Change UK, before she joined the Liberal Democrats. Her public career is centered on party politics and parliamentary service, with a record shaped by changing political alliances and representation in both the Commons and the Lords.