An eight-year-old girl has written a heartfelt letter to a Labour MP about her family’s poverty, raising new concerns about the cost of living in the process.
The hand-written letter was given to Stephen Timms by the girl’s parents when they attended his constituency surgery in East Ham, and he later posted it on Twitter.
‘Things are becoming more and more difficult,’ she writes in the letter, explaining that her family have found it difficult to feed themselves and have been forced to take on a lodger in their two-bedroom flat they rent.
‘I am a hard working girl that wants to keep learning more and more, but due to the financial situation of my parents, I am unable to attend teaching and swimming lessons,’ she wrote.
Mr Timms said he was reluctant to draw wider conclusions from the ‘extraordinary’ letter, but warned of a growing number of people ‘on the verge of destitution’ owing to the government’s bedroom tax, welfare reforms and immigration changes.
‘This family is only surviving because of help from friends and handouts from the church. Her parents also brought their daughter’s school reports to the constituency surgery, which showed she had all As,’ the shadow employment minister told the Independent.
‘She obviously a remarkable little girl facing a very tough time but who knows if she will even be here in a couple of years?’ - Metro UK
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