The gap between rich and poor is at its highest for nearly 10 years:Report

By Christopher Hope

Poverty in Britain is at a nine year high, a report by Joseph Rowntree Foundation revealed yesterday.

The Tories said the report was an indictment of the Government’s failure to tackle low earnings and blew “Labour’s hollow claim to be the party of poverty”.

The study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that the gap between the haves and have-nots started growing in 2004, long before the recession began.

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