In-work poverty rises

CUTS to tax credits should be reversed and high housing costs need to be tackled, according to researchers who say 60% of UK people in poverty live in a household where someone is in work.

Experts from Cardiff University who carried out the research say the figure is the highest recorded.

They found the risk of poverty for adults living in working households rose by more than a quarter, from 12.4% to 15.7%, during the 10-year period from 2004/5 to 2014/15.