Labour

The Government need to act on child poverty fast before they do irreparable damage to a generation - Byrne

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said in response to comments from the government’s child poverty adviser Alan Milburn that the Government should ‘come clean’ and admit that it ‘will not meet its child poverty target’:

"The IFS, the OBR and now Alan Milburn, who was personally chosen by David Cameron to give impartial advice, have all confirmed that this government is undoing a decade of progress on child poverty.

"Yet at the Autumn Statement, we saw the government choose not to enact a fair tax on bankers bonuses but to squeeze working families further with a freeze on tax credits.

"The government should listen to its own adviser. They need to act on child poverty fast, before they do irreparable damage to a generation."