An article published under the title ‘Labour saved 2m children from poverty’ has been removed at the request of Mike Brewer, professor of economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex.

Mike Brewer’s findings on child poverty can be found in Chapter 5 of the Child Poverty Action Group Report  Ending Child Poverty by 2020: An interim report

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