WES Streeting has defended Labour’s policy of not scrapping the child benefit cap after former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman called for it…
Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman claimed in a piece for the Telegraph that the child benefit cap should end, but Wes Streeting has maintained it should stay’s policy of not scrapping the child benefit cap after former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman called for it to end.
In contrast, Braverman wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph calling for the policy to be ditched and dedicated her thinking to the late Labour peer, former MP and welfare reformer Frank Field."A crucial reform that Frank advocated was to scrap the two-child benefits limit, restricting child tax credits and universal credit to the first two children in a family. If they have a third or fourth child, a low-income family will lose about £3200 per year.
“I grew up on a council estate with a single mum, and often the benefit system put food in the fridge and money in the electric meter. I am a product of a welfare state that quite literally fed me and housed me and clothed me at points in my life.” When Keir Starmer ditched the plans to scrap the two child benefit cap last July a number of Labour MPs including Stella Creasy, Rosie Duffield, and Lloyd Russell-Moyle, as well as Scottish leader Anas Sarwar, spoke against the U-turn.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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