What sort of country would tolerate child poverty rising to 40%? Maybe the UK | Polly Toynbee

If the Tories win, their brutal cuts in spending on children will make more of them poorer by 2022. Labour says it will stop that Of all the destructions of the dismal decade, history will surely judge the deliberate downgrading of children the most perverse. "Our children are our future" used to be a tired old bromide trotted out by every politician, but if you look at spending, you would say the old have been the future for the Conservatives. Related: Fears child poverty may rise to record 60-...