TORY welfare and economic policies will condemn millions to grinding poverty in a “permanently divided nation,” a top government adviser confirmed yesterday.

Britain’s slave-wage scandal was laid bare in Con-Dem social mobility tsar Alan Milburn’s State of the Nation report.

The social mobility and child poverty commission chair said that despite Tory boasts of Britain bouncing back from the 2008 banking collapse, “there are clear signs that the economic recovery is not being matched by a social recovery.