The World - News from Dec. 2, 1985
A Church of England panel criticized Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for policies it says help the rich at the expense of poor people living in decayed urban areas. The criticism came in a report commissioned by Archbishop Robert A.K. Runcie of Canterbury in 1983, two years after rioting first broke out in racially mixed districts of London and Liverpool. It urged the government to spend more on inner city housing, social benefits and job creation for the young unemployed.
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