England’s 10 poorest council areas are being punished with funding cuts 16 times more severe than those made in Tory heartlands, Labour revealed yesterday.

Government support has been slashed by £782 for every home in the deprived local authorities since the Con-Dems came to power.

Families in Liverpool, Hackney, Newham, Manchester, Knowsley, Blackpool, Tower Hamlets, Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Hull have felt the worst effects of coalition cuts. All but one of the councils is run by Labour.