Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to Save The Children’s report on children in poverty, said:

“The last Labour government lifted over one million children out of poverty, built children’s centres and introduced child tax credits. Under David Cameron child poverty is set to rise, not fall, and the cost-of-living crisis has left millions of families struggling to make ends meet. A Labour government will freeze energy prices, raise the minimum wage, extend free childcare provision, scrap the Bedroom Tax and introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee to get people off benefits and into work.”