Successive governments have vowed to reform the agency to keep it out of domestic politics.
Although the figures, published on Wednesday by the End Child Poverty campaign, show wide geographical variations, with traditionally deprived inner-city areas showing the highest rates of child poverty, campaigners said the research demonstrated that the problem, which successive governments have vowed to abolish, is reaching into even relatively affluent areas of the country.
Statistics published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills show that 49.3% of young people in England entered higher education in the last academic year, the highest rate on record and just a shade below the 50% mark that successive governments have vowed to reach.
Successive governments have vowed to stop them reaching the mainland, sending those intercepted on unsafe boats to camps onChristmas Island, and more recently Manus island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in the South Pacific.
Successive Thai governments have vowed to end an insurgency that appears bent on making the area ungovernable, possibly as a prelude to a breakaway state.
But even though successive British leaders have vowed to combat child poverty — Tony Blair promised to eradicate it, Gordon Brown called it a "scar on the soul of Britain" and David Cameron pledged to stand by single mothers — such a broad effort is unlikely when Britain is leading a race among western countries to trim public expenditure and debt.
The National Intelligence Service, once known as KCIA, was a favorite tool in campaigns to frame the dictators' political opponents as North Korea sympathizers; successive governments since then have vowed to reform the agency and keep it out of domestic politics.
Or I might point out that successive governments and chancellors have vowed to improve the UK's internationally sub-standard productivity, to very little effect.
At least three successive mayors (in 16 years) have vowed to clear the streets of homeless people.
(AP) INDIA: POSTAL STRIKE CONTINUES Postal services were paralyzed for a fourth successive day as hundreds of thousands of postal workers vowed to continue a protest strike until the government renews talks.
Successive appeals and diplomatic efforts had already failed and after vows from Indonesian officials that the death sentences would be carried out, the 30-year-old's prospects looked bleak.
