More Treasury reviews - can anyone bear the excitement? It's called politics - no-one promised it would be interesting all the time. But the stakes are high - how to break the cycle of exclusion that keeps families in poverty for generations.
Okay then, why now? Back in the heady days of 1997, the Government set ambitious, some might say deluded, targets of getting rid of child poverty in a generation and halving it by 2010. The Chancellor wants to know if its strategy of job opportunities and better public services is enough to keep it on course.
So what's he reviewing? For one thing, the definition of child poverty.
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