🌟 Rahul Keith

My top priority for @UKLabour is to end child poverty. They made some headway last time. In 1999, Tony Blair said; ‘our historic aim will be for ours to be the first generation to end child poverty. It will take a generation. It is a 20-year mission. But I believe that it can be done.’ Labour set targets and responsibilities for reducing child poverty, enshrined into law by Gordon Brown under the Child Poverty Act 2010, which passed with cross party support. There was a National Childcare Strategy, Sure Start children’s centres for under-fives and their carers, the national minimum wage, the Family Nurse Partnership, a New Deal for Lone Parents and a child tax credit system. As a result, there were sharp reductions in child poverty, especially for lone parents and children in larger families. So it can be done. And it must be done. 4.2 million British children whose parents have too little income to support them properly – 29 per cent of our future generation. We are fouling our nests and destroying our future.