Labour's failure to tackle poverty

David Cameron attacked Labour’s record on poverty at the launch of a document outlining plans to make British poverty history.

Under Labour, the number of people in severe poverty has risen by 600,000 – and child poverty increased by 100,000 last year.

They have failed because they’ve concentrated on the symptoms of social breakdown rather than the causes.

Our policy paper – ‘Making British poverty history’ – lays out measures to address the deep-rooted causes of poverty, such as educational failure, family breakdown, drug abuse, indebtedness and crime.

David was joined at the launch by Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling and Greg Clark.