Tackling child poverty has always been the historic mission of the Labour Party, but it is also one that is profoundly personal to me.I know only too well the sting of growing up in poverty. My mother brought me up alone. We didn’t have much – there was no heating upstairs and we regularly struggled with damp. We sometimes relied on the kindness of our community to get by. One neighbour, seeing me playing outside in only a jumper one winter, pushed an envelope through our letterbox marked, “For Bridget’s Coat”.

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