The end of child poverty? Not with the Tories in power | Polly Toynbee

A decade of progress has been swiftly undone. Closing Sure Start centres only makes things worse

This hurts. This almost makes me despair of politics. Why invest such emotion, such hope in what a well-intentioned new government can do, only to see it all torn from the roots and trashed at the next roll of the electoral dice?

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There is nothing else here – no pub, no church, no shop, no community hall, no GP surgery

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