Claim: After nine years of a Conservative government, child poverty is up 50%.
Fact-check: Viral post about Conservatives' record in government gets lots of things wrong - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. there's no single measure of child poverty, but depending on which you use it has risen by up to 5% or fallen by up to 3% between 2009/10 and 2017/18, under coalition and conservative governments.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2019-10-16T00:00:00