One in two Britons thinks the main political parties are dragging their heels on aid, as 30,000 children die each day through poverty (Letters, April 26). Half of those interviewed in a YouGov poll for the campaign Make Poverty History said Britain should meet its commitment to giving 0.7% of national income in aid by 2010 - earlier than all the parties' timetables. If the leaders revised their policies to reflect this view, that would help make poverty history far sooner.