It's a question they've had since 1999 to answer, when Labour firstlaunched its historic pledge on child poverty, which - controversially -the Lib Dems have yet to sign up to.
David Laws, the Lib Dems' work and pensions spokesman, admits that it'sa "legitimate criticism" that the party hasn't thought enough aboutchild poverty. But rather than nominally signing up to the pledge, hewants to make sure the party has a clear idea of what the problems areand how to tackle them. And it's hard to sign up to a moving target, hesays, pointing out that the Government's initial talk of eliminatingchild poverty has switched to pulling it in line with the lowest threecountries in Europe.
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