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The approach, results and recommendations in this report represent a consensus view uniting right and left, supported by every one of the fifteen Commissioners involved, on how we should measure and understand poverty in the UK and the experiences of those who are in poverty.Philippa Stroud, Legatum Institute

We call on the government, the Office for National Statistics and all of those working to solve poverty, to support this new measure of poverty and concentrate now on taking action to loosen the grip of poverty on people’s lives.Helen Barnard

The work of the Social Metrics Commission puts to an end the battle about the measurement of poverty and opens up the way for proper debate about how best to help those in need – I recommend their findings to you.Oliver Letwin