Labour borrows Marshall’s plan to blitz poverty

LABOUR has promised to launch a “war on poverty” if returned to office, which would involve spending at least €3.5 billion on the most disadvantaged areas in the country.

Launching the plan yesterday, Labour leader Pat Rabbitte said “nothing less than a ‘Marshall Plan’ for disadvantaged people, areas, communities and neighbourhoods” was required.

He was referring to the economic aid plan masterminded by the then US secretary of state George C Marshall to rebuild Europe after World War II.