A FURIOUS shadow minister accused Tory MPs of “playing games” by talking endlessly about uncontroversial parking charge proposals to time out a Bill targeting child poverty.

Shadow communities minister Andy Slaughter said he was “very, very angry” at Conservative efforts to stop Labour MP Daniel Jarvis’s Private Member’s Bill from being heard in the Commons yesterday.

Mr Jarvis’s Child Poverty in the UK (Target for Reduction) Bill, which was scheduled third on the list for Commons business, calls on the government to reintroduce a target to end child poverty.