While child poverty worsened considerably under more than a decade of Tory govt., its also clear that Labour's refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap is compounding that effect.
As the Children's Commissioner observes, children, 'don’t talk about ‘poverty’ as an abstract concept but about not having the things that most people would consider basic'... no wonder Rachel de Souza refers to this as Dickensian.
As a society we should find this unacceptable!
#poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/08/children-england-living-almost-dickensian-levels-poverty
