SHOCK figures released by the Department for Works and Pensions show that there are 100,000 more children living in poverty last year than the year before.
These figures make grim reading for the Chancellor Gordon Brown, who made tackling poverty the great promise of his chancellorship and yet he will soon leave the Treasury with poverty rising.
The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies said Mr Brown would be 800,000 short of his 2001 target.
One charity chief called the figures a moral disgrace.
You may ask what response there was from the Government on these disappointing figures.
A Government spokesperson said mothers who stayed at home to look after their children were to blame. As always with this Government, they are quick to take the praise for good news but when it is bad it is always the fault of somebody else.
COUNCILLOR D PEARSON, St Michael's Court, Blackburn.
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