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Mr Cameron said the root causes of poverty such as long-term unemployment and family breakdown should be tackled as part of an effective strategy to reduce the problem.

"Last year, 100,000 more children went into poverty, if you look at most severe poverty there are 600,000 more people in it than there were 10 years ago," he told GMTV.

"I think worst of all, if you actually look at people on the lowest incomes, the poorest 10% in our country, they are actually getting poorer at the moment.

"We are saying stop just looking at the money, start looking at the causes of poverty and that is things like family breakdown, drug abuse, persistently being out of work."

Mr Cameron's remarks come as he was due to give a speech accusing the Prime Minister of making child poverty worse.

He will urge Mr Brown to publish the latest figures before Thursday's local elections.