The Evangelical Alliance have criticised the last government's economic policy, saying that it has not helped the poor enough.
Their new report, called 'Good news for the poor?', found nearly four out of five evangelicals thought the last government's economic policies did not benefit the most needy.
Lucy Olofinjana is a Research Coordinator at the Evangelical Alliance. She told Premier the majority of evangelicals think the Bible teaches they should work for justice for the poor.
She told Premier: "Evangelicals are really active in tackling poverty in lots of ways, so seven in ten have donated in a food bank in the last year and almost four in ten are volunteering with a Christian poverty project of some kind."
"There's really a sense that people feel this is a mandate from God.
"97 per cent, so almost everybody who took our survey said that we should be working for justice for the poor and that we all have a duty.
"And also a sense that we will be judged if we are not working for the poor."
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