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A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks, January 24, 2016
GMB members have warned Labour’s “unbelievable” decision to keep the two-child benefit cap will make voters switch to the Lib Dems.
A motion condemning the policy, which prevents parents from claiming benefits for more than two children, was passed at the union’s annual conference today.
It noted: “Unbelievably, last year Sir Keir Starmer decided that scrapping the two-child benefit cap would no longer be Labour Party policy, despite the estimations that this would lift around 270,000 households with children out of poverty.”
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
