As taken from dictionary.com, (not Oxford I know, but easily accessible) 'the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.' Your point of 50% of the population being unable to feed or clothe themselves is simply a political smokescreen, it...
Living in poverty? As defined by a left wing pressure group, or by common sense? Not having a 55" 4k TV with the full Sky package is not living in poverty.
And Julia Hartley-Brewer has stated that the issue didn't actually exist anyway as she dealt with it at the time. But that is not good enough for the femi-nazis and their odourous supporters it seems?