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Labour has pledged to end Universal Credit after a damning report revealed a generation of children were being born into poverty.

New research published this week highlighted a "terrible reality" in which thousands of children are living in converted shipping containers, office blocks and B&Bs.

Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, said young families were often in cramped conditions and lived miles away from their schools.

The Labour Party has pledged an end to Universal Credit.

And with MPs on all sides of the House of Commons heading for a collision course over the handling of Brexit and the Prorogation of Parliament, a General Election is likely in the near future.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has warned that the Government is "failing a whole generation of children".

During a visit to a children's lunch club in Wales, he said his party would take "radical action" to help children from all backgrounds and had a "moral responsibility" to "end the scandal of child poverty and homelessness".

He also pledged to scrap Universal Credit and - as reported by our sister title Plymouth Live - Mr Corbyn said he wanted to reform the Conservative Government's flagship benefits reform, which has been hamstrung by complaints and confusion.

He said during a visit in May that, if elected, he would immediately stop the roll-out of Universal Credit and end the hated five-week wait for a payment - which is blamed for putting claimants into debt: "We’d halt the roll-out straight away and end the waiting period for people going onto it.

"We would end the benefit freeze of 2010 which has hard-wired into it a reduction of benefits.

"We would have a social security system that is worthy of the name."

Speaking to Birmingham Live,Conservative Party deputy chairman Paul Scully, said the Tory record on fighting unemployment spoke for itself, and warned Labour would only make things worse.

Mr Scully said: "Jeremy Corbyn would wreck the economy, which would drive up poverty and unemployment.

"Work is the best route out of poverty. It's the Conservatives who have brought down unemployment to its lowest levels since the 1970s, meaning more children than ever before living in a working home.

"Labour would tax more, borrow more and waste more, and just like last time it's working people who would pay the price."