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Just under half a million children living in poverty in the UK are in households where there is at least one person working full-time, the Press Association reports. The data is from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank. PA says:

The IPPR said barriers related to work and childcare mean many families are still struggling and end up “watching their children grow up in poverty” despite their best efforts.

The IPPR analysed official figures published by the government earlier this year and found around 460,000 children were living in poverty in 2024/25 despite being in full-time working households, either in a two-parent or single parent household.

Parents are doing everything we’ve asked of them – working full time and juggling childcare – yet many are still watching their children grow up in poverty.

That’s not a failure of individual families, it’s a sign the system is no longer delivering on its basic promise.

Except that it purports to claim that the area (Makerfield) has been a victim of 40 years of Thatcherism (that’s what Burnham seems to be running against, which means he’s also running against the Blair-Brown government, of which he was a part). Yet the backdrop to his wandering shows rows of neat, well-kept, substantial semi-detached homes, with plenty new cars in the driveways and a vibrant high street, despite all the road works improving it. Oh yes and a state school so good he sent his kids to it. Put simply — the pictures clash with his words of victimhood and deprivation.

You need to get out of London, Andrew. You’ve clearly got no idea how much people here are struggling. And, yes, a lot of it can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher.