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Slipping taxpayer-funded gifts of up to £2,000 a year to wealthy families with young children is an outrageous subsidy for the privileged.

Theresa May is running a government for the affluent, even though homelessness and ­reliance on foodbanks are rising, and the NHS is crying out for resources.

Instead of these gifts the cash should go on the deserving and hard-up public services.

Mrs May and her Tory Ministers repeatedly tell us money is scarce. They lectured us on tightening our belts, yet they have a magic money tree for the wealthy and pet causes.

Politics boils down to whose side a party is on. Mrs May reducing the incomes of low and middle-earners while bankrolling the well-off speaks volumes.