Inflation, crisis and Brexit: and for English children the poverty alarm goes off

LONDON – What a tragic paradox. The UK is one of the seven richest and most powerful countries in the world, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak he is the most scrooge MP in the country, even if he hasn’t yet filed his expected tax return. Yet, child poverty is rampant: today there are 4.3 million poor children across the Channel, or 3 out of 10, according to the Children’s Society association.