As City Treasurer, I’ve made clear my personal and political commitment to tackling this scourge, which affects around a quarter of Glasgow’s young people. There is no magic wand nor any shortcuts to reducing child poverty and the deep structural inequalities responsible for it. For the first time, the annual report on child poverty uses up-to-the-minute data on individual household incomes, which provides a much more detailed understanding of the depth of poverty than reliance on annual statistics. Instead, she made some laughable claims that a Starmer and Sarwar double act would somehow be the solution to the challenges of child poverty. While we in Scotland get on with the hard graft of lifting children and families out of poverty, Labour’s top brass offer nothing but broken pledges and empty promises.