Sir Keir Starmer has strongly hinted the two-child profit cap will likely be scrapped on the finances – after the chancellor did the identical.
Requested if he can be eliminating the cap, the prime minister informed ITV: “We won’t have to wait much longer, but I wouldn’t be telling you that we’re going to drive down child poverty if I wasn’t clear that we will be taking a number of measures in order to do so.”
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On Monday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves additionally signalled she’s going to elevate the cap, which at present means households can’t declare youngster advantages for greater than their first two youngsters.
“I don’t think that it’s right that a child is penalised because they are in a bigger family, through no fault of their own,” she informed the BBC.
“So we will take action on child poverty.”
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Labour’s youngster profit cap dilemma
Ms Reeves additionally talked about she had spoken to former Labour PM and chancellor Gordon Brown on Sunday and Monday.
Mr Brown, who has lengthy campaigned to get it lifted, mentioned: “I’m assured that the two-child rule will likely be addressed.
“We’re waiting for Rachel Reeves’s budget, which I think will mention this.
“Keir Starmer, I do know is personally involved and on this.
“So I’m hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll see the kind of action that we’ve been talking about.”
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‘Shameful’ that 4.5 million youngsters in poverty
The present Labour authorities has had a tough relationship with the coverage, with the PM suspending seven of his MPs two weeks after profitable the election for voting towards the federal government to elevate the cap.
Lifting it can price £2.8bn, one thing ministers have needed to grapple with as they attempt to plug a rising financial black gap.
Ms Reeves additionally talked about Mr Brown is one in every of her political heroes as a result of he did a lot to elevate youngsters out of poverty, and mentioned it was the explanation she went into politics.
