She has assembled an independent, cross-party group of academics and campaigners, who will be given 18 months to agree new poverty metrics. Lady Stroud now runs the Centre for Social Justice – the charity she helped Duncan Smith to set up in 2004, when the Conservatives were in opposition. “When you came up to the big fiscal events, all the decisions were made predominantly through an economic lens,” she said. Stroud believes both income and other factors, such as family breakdown, should be included in the new metrics. And people on the right would say, it’s also about these other things, but do you know what, it’s also about income.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2016 11:18 UTC