What do you want for the children in your life? Happiness, health, success?

All children deserve the best start we can give them.

But after 14 years of austerity, COVID and the cost of living crisis,

child poverty is at a record high in the UK.

The government must act decisively to make life better for kids.

It must invest in our social security system and remove the two-child limit, or child poverty will continue to rise.

Read Child Poverty Action Group's piece in this week's magazine.

The New Statesman.

Hello, I'm Anoushekelian and this is Politics from The New Statesman, where every Thursday we bring you the latest from Westminster and beyond.

Today I'm joined by our political editor, Andrew Maher, and our senior editor, George Eaton.

Hello.

Hello.

And later, we're going to hear from our senior data journalist Ben Walker as well about public attitudes towards the EU and Brexit.

But let's start.

I mean, there's a lot going on this week, but I think we've got to start with the statement issued between the UK, France and Canada

regarding Israel. It was a strongly worded document which marked a departure from the UK's

stance on Israel, prompted by the expansion in military action in Gaza, which has resulted in

an imminent risk of famine in the region. Andrew, Ottawa, Paris and London have threatened

sanctions if Israel does not

cease the renewed military offensive. And they've also threatened concrete actions. What does

concrete actions mean? I think concrete actions would include sanctioning, not just the settler

voices that have been sanctioned already, but also senior members of Netanyahu's cabinet, travel

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