Bongo players, people in Robin Hood hats, men dressed as drag dinner ladies and Mrs Doyle, a character from the successful sitcom Father Ted, proclaiming the only tea she does not like is poverty greeted activists as they filed into Westminster Central Hall to lobby their members of Parliament (MP). But behind the fun and frolics of Tea Time for Change, organised by seven of the UK’s leading development agencies, was a serious message. The government must act to shore up aid, crack down on tax avoidance and push for a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions to help the world’s poorest people. Tax takes centre stage “It’s a scandal every day that 850 million people are going hungry,” said Chris Bain, director of CAFOD, the official Catholic aid agency of England and Wales, which helped organise the event. “But aid alone won’t enable us to end global poverty. Developing...