Starmer under mounting pressure to lift two-child benefit cap
Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to scrape the benefits limit after the child poverty is arranged to propose a duty force movement.
On November 26, the Prime Minister established a group of ministers and officials to look at how to reduce child poverty with Rachel Reeves’ proposals before the budget.
However, the highly delayed proposals will be said to be the most effective way to remove children from poverty and should continue the movement.
Accordingly TimesThe task force lifted the two children’s limits and prepared the main boards of a child poverty strategy.
Dame Meg Hillier, President of the Treasury Committee of the Parliament, said that the Labor Party’s inability to alleviate child poverty and pointing to the scrapping of the two children’s lids as the most effective precaution would be “inconceivable”.
BBC Radio Talks to 4s Today The program, Senior Workers’ deputy said: “I look in detail and I was convinced that the fastest and easiest way to remove 350,000 children from poverty and 700,000 children from deep poverty will be the fastest and easiest way to get the cover.”
He added the last Labor Government’s record on child poverty and added: “For me, especially in my election region, it was unimaginable for many colleagues and people I know that we would not invest in our children.”
He said: “Regardless of the moral and ethical reasons about the children who share shoes and clothes to go to school and make alternative visits to playing football, there are only one pair of boots to share, such things… In fact, there are difficult facts and figures about why we need to invest in young people.”
When asked if the measure is believed to be in the budget of the chancellor, Dame Meg said, “I hope”.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown supported calls.
The two children imposed by the former Chancellor George Osborne prevent parents from demanding benefit for the third or next child born after April 2017.
Since the general elections, it has become one of the most controversial problems for workers’ MPs, and many of them were shocked that the prime minister has not yet scrapped after a year.
However, scrap renewed pressure, Mrs. Reeves, November in the budget of the tax increase in the tax increase is already trying to find tens of billions of pounds.
Until the end of the decade, at a cost of approximately £ 3 billion per year, two children’s cover will be scrapped, when they determine their financial plans, they will force the chancellor to more difficult choices.
The problem will be the main focus of activists and MPs before Labor’s annual conference at Liverpool.
Sir Keir’e workers’ leader to challenge the speculation planned to challenge the great Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, the cover asked to be scrapped.
In the foreground, Lucy Powell, in the foreground, supported Mr. Brown’s offer to undermine the cover, while his rival Bridget Phillipsson said that the cover of the cover was on the table.
