NEWS FROM LABOUR: Rachel Reeves, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to a report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, said:
“This damning report highlights the Government’s failure to tackle child poverty. Every child deserves a good start in life but under David Cameron child poverty is set to rise not fall, and millions of families facing a cost-of-living crisis are 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.”
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