Lara Bird: “It makes a genuine difference to families in every single community across this nation.”

I think there's a really strong chance that we have a hung parliament in Westminster.

What I don't want is for other young women in my constituency, across Scotland, across the whole UK, to look at the experience that I've had and go, ‘well, I can't do that’, because that doesn't serve our national political conversation…

We have a really great opportunity at the next General Election to be in a position where that negotiation can seriously start with the next iteration of the Westminster government.

That move alone would lift an estimated million children out of poverty overnight - that’s what a government and a party that is serious about ending child poverty looks like.