Labour must return to first principles on child poverty | Andrew Harrop

The party’s manifesto policies would have cut living standards for the worst-off – and that can’t be right• Andrew Harrop is general secretary of the Fabian SocietyLabour has the most leftwing leader in its history. So how, in this election, did the party present a policy programme that would increase child poverty? It is a troubling question that casts a long shadow over the party’s hugely successful campaign: a campaign that in other regards stood out for its convi