In a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister, Huw Lewis said he was "dismayed" to hear Clegg’s "misleading rhetoric".
The letter, which was also signed by shadow Scottish children’s minister Karen Whitefield and shadow work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper, goes on to quote Channel Four’s fact check blog, which found that child poverty under Labour did in fact decrease.
"While the use of such rhetoric may serve to energise your base, demoralised following your wholesale adoption of Conservative policies, it is a wilful and dishonest representation of the hard work of public servants," the letter said.
"Given your new found commitment to eradicating child poverty, perhaps you will now oppose the deeply regressive measures which have been announced by your Conservative coalition partners — including cuts of on average £12 a week in housing benefit for hundreds of thousands of working families with children — which will only serve to increase child poverty."
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