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Shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray speaking on the second day of the Scottish Labour Party Conference at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, February 18, 2023
SHADOW Scottish secretary Ian Murray was rebuked today for claiming that Labour leaders Sir Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar are “both right” on the two-child benefit cap.
Tensions have grown with Labour since Sir Keir greeted a question from BBC’s Laura Kuenessberg on the two-child cap with: “That stays.”
Campaigners argue that scrapping it would immediately lift a quarter of a million children out of poverty and benefit an additional 800,000 at a cost of £1.3 billion.
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
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR