Years of Tory neglect have seen millions of children forced to grow up in poverty, with the situation getting worse as a result of soaring housing costs and cruel cuts.
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic piled more misery onto struggling families, a lack of support plunged more youngsters below the breadline, heartbreaking data shows.
In some parts of London and Birmingham, more than half of children are living in poverty after housing costs are taken into account.
And parts of the Midlands and northern England are fast catching up as the cost of renting increases, with sharp rises between 2014 and last year.
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