SIR - The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has just released its UK Poverty 2018 report and, as we approach Christmas, it doesn't make for comfortable reading.

It shows that the number of people with a job but living below the breadline has risen faster than employment. Over half a million workers in Britain have fallen into working poverty during the last five years. Around one in eight in the economy are working poor. And, the number of children living in poverty in a working family has risen more steeply than at any time in the last 20 years. The JRF says poverty could be alleviated if more firms paid the real living wage. It also calls on the Government to end its four-year benefits freeze.

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose