5 June 2025, 16:48 | Updated: 5 June 2025, 16:57

By Bridget Phillipson

I know just what it’s like to grow up in poverty. That sting of realising there’s not enough to go around, of not being able to heat the house, of being denied what most families take for granted.

Working families today are doing their best to provide for their families, working all hours to give their children the very best start, just as my Mam did for me.

Children see that struggle. It shapes them into the adults they become.

But under the last government too many children were plunged into hardship. Too many parents were robbed of the freedom to support their families.

No child should be coming to school hungry, or not knowing how they’ll pay for their lunch that day.

If they’re arriving at school hungry every day, they’ll never be able to work hard, do well and go on to live a good life.

That’s not........

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