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IN 21 DAYS VOTING CONSERVATIVE MEANS THIS:
4.2 million youngsters in the UK – or 30 per cent – are existing below the poverty line.
Alison Garnham, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: “The government cannot continue to shy away from rising child poverty on its watch.”
Pointing to the 600,000 rise since 2010, she added: “That's a crystal clear picture – pre Covid-19 – and one that, as the reaction to Marcus Rashford's intervention shows, is unacceptable to people across the UK.” The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England has ruled that Boris Johnson made misleading claims about supposedly falling child poverty levels at prime minister’s questions.
Researchers for the commissioner, Anne Longfield, concluded that Johnson was wrong to claim that there were 400,000 fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010 and that it was “generally false” for him to say overall poverty levels were falling.
The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) responding to a complaint by the End Child Poverty Coalition that the Prime Minister had three times used official poverty data “selectively, inaccurately and, ultimately, misleadingly”. (Extracts from July 2020)
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