One MILLION kids growing up in poverty as families fight to buy even the basics

A million British children under four are growing up in poverty, a heartbreaking new report has revealed.

The latest official figures showed 13.4 million people were living in poverty in the first year of the pandemic from 2020 to 2021.

This left one in four UK children, including 1.3 million primary school children and one million under four, growing up below the poverty line.