The Tories had a cheek last week when they gloated over Labour's failure to meet its target to take a million children out of poverty, as the first phase of its pledge to end child poverty by 2020.
No-one doubts that the Tories contributed to Britain's ugly inequalities.
No-one doubts that the Tories' weird claim - that the failure to fulfil the first, and easiest, phase shows the limits of the state - was just propaganda.
By pledging to end child poverty Labour was invoking the power of the state - even though 'the state' and 'equality' and 'redistribution' are purged from its vocabulary, they are the key to ending child poverty.
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