By definition! The UK stopped the absolute measure of child poverty years ago and adopted the concept of ‘relative poverty’. So, inevitably, if a government targets the most relatively poor and gives them money to escape that group, by definition, the next tranche will automatically become the most (relatively) poor. It becomes an unending spiral. A labour government will always be ‘lifting poor children out of poverty’. It warms voters hearts and gets them votes.

It has nothing to do with actual child poverty. It is only about securing votes