Byrne: Tories ‘condemn’ children to poverty

Liam Byrne, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, responds to the IFS report on child poverty.

"David Cameron promised us he would not increase child poverty. Now we have the truth. The Tory-led government's decision to cut too far and too fast this year will condemn hundreds of thousands more children to grow up poor.

"All the progress our country has made in a decade fighting the scar of child poverty has been wiped out by the decisions of just one year. A generation of children will not thank Cameron."