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If you were to ask someone what the Labour Party is for, reducing or ending child poverty might be pretty high on the list.

We're looking at every aspect of what's needed to improve the life chance that children across our country,

including those children growing up in poverty.

So why then are we seeing projections that under the first Labour government in 14 years, it might actually increase?

Child poverty rates are predicted to increase everywhere in the UK apart from Scotland,

according to a new report from the Joseph Brown.

That seems even more likely.

Now Donald Trump's tariffs look set to squeeze the public finances even more.

So, with rising Labour unease about this fundamental issue, is there any way out?

Or could record-breaking poverty define this government's legacy?

I'm John Harris and you're listening to Politics Week in the UK for The Guardian.

Ending child poverty was a stated aim of the last Labour government and under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, levels were dramatically reduced.

This week, the Education Secretary, Bridget Philipson, is promoting the rollout of so-called

breakfast clubs, aiming to provide kids with a free meal and parents with a half an hour

extra of childcare. We're also hearing that Labor has apparently abandoned its ambition to

scrap the two-child benefit limit. And thanks to other policies, like making it harder for disabled

people to access benefits,

by the end of this Parliament, levels of child poverty are apparently on course to be higher in England than at the start.

There's a big question here.

If a Labour government is going backwards on child poverty, what's it here for?

We'll chat to our political editor, Pippa Creer, about all this later on in this episode. But first, Simon Kidwell is a head teacher at Hartford Manor School in Cheshire and also

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