Nearly a quarter of children born in Britain since the 2010s have faced poverty for at least half of their childhoods due to sweeping ‘austerity era’ benefit cuts, stark new research has found.
The University of Oxford study found the proportion of children born after 2013 spending at least six of their first 11 years in hardship surged to 23 per cent after ministers froze working-age benefits and imposed policies like the two-child limit.
