2010 Election

Wherever you are in the world, poverty kills childhood and breaks parents’ hearts. We bailed out the banks in a crisis. Now we're calling on them to do their part. Support the Robin Hood Tax and take action to end poverty at home and abroad.

'I want to get a job, but I can’t get one that pays well enough to pay rent, council tax, food, childcare and clothes'.

Some families living in poverty face impossible choices. Some parents in the UK have to decide whether to pay the heating bills or put a decent meal on the table. Other parents, in the world’s poorest countries, face the prospect of losing a child because they can’t afford to pay a doctor to treat a sick child.

  • 1.7 million children in the UK live in severe poverty
  • 8.8 million children in the world’s poorest countries die every year before their fifth birthday

Now is the time to push our politicians. We need the next UK government to make ending child poverty at home and abroad a top priority.

'The problems I face as a mother are feeding my family, then clothes and education'.

We want a Prime Minister that takes urgent action in the first 100 days after the 2010 election to help end child poverty by:

  • championing a Robin Hood Tax - a tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to help poor children.

The next government should use the money raised by this tax

AT HOME, to:

  • lift children out of severe poverty
  • help poor children do better at school

and ABROAD to:

  • keep their promises on life-saving aid
  • make sure this money reaches the poorest mothers and children.

Poverty kills. Help end it.

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