A record 4.5 million children currently live in poverty in the UK today. It’s an extraordinary figure, one almost too vast to properly comprehend.

Opportunities for those 4.5 million children and their families to be heard directly are limited, but thankfully groups like Changing Realities – a participatory online project involving nearly 200 carers and parents living on a low income across the UK – do provide a platform for parents like myself to speak out.

This week the Child Poverty Action Group has invited me to do just that by attending the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool and providing my insight, a first hand experience of raising children on universal credit.

Yet the party of government arrives on Merseyside in a bad state. Despite its giant majority in the Ho

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