Liz Kendall comments on JRF study on child destitution in the UK

Liz Kendall MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, commenting on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s study which has found a million children experienced destitution in the UK last year, said:

“It is a damning indictment of this Conservative government that a million children experienced destitution in the last year.

“The Tories crashed the economy, unleashing a cost of living crisis with a society that now has more food banks than police stations.

“Labour has a plan to grow the economy to put money back into people's pockets, make work pay, and deliver a bold, new cross-government child poverty strategy.”