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USDAW delegate Richard McDermid called on union members to kick out the Tories at next year’s general election during a debate about child welfare yesterday.
Mr McDermid, who represents the union in Tamworth and is a Labour councillor, gave numerous examples of child poverty including the increasing use of foodbanks which many children rely on.
He told conference: “There has been an increase in children getting rickets in this country. That’s because they are not getting the vitamins they need for a healthy diet. That’s because of poverty and is absolutely outrageous.”
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
