Wednesday 2 April 2008

White teenage boys are the new poor in Labour's Britain

White boys from sink estates are the new poor in Labour's Britain, an official report said yesterday.

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Among the losers are families with stay-at-home mothers, who were found to make up a growing number of the poor.

A study for Tory leader David Cameron by senior party MP Iain Duncan Smith identified in 2006 the growing failure among white boys.

It said family breakdown, family indifference, drink and drug abuse by parents and peer pressure was holding them back.

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