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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner telephone canvassing for the by-elections in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Selby and Ainsty, and Somerton and Frome, at the Labour party headquarters in London. Picture date: Thursday July 20, 2023
LABOUR’s national policy forum (NPF) members will be urged to back a major rise to the minimum wage and scrap the two-child benefits cap over this weekend’s meeting.
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) has called for the party to “end in-work poverty” with an increase to £15 per hour amid below-inflation pay rises and the cost-of-living crisis.
The union’s president Ian Hodson said Sir Keir Starmer’s nickname “Sir Kid Starver” could stick after he ruled out free school meals and kept the Tory two-child benefits cap.
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
