Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that Labour will not scrap the two-child benefit cap and the so-called rape clause.
In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, the Labour leader refused to be drawn on a number of other spending commitments but was definite on the policy recently described by his Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jon Ashworth as “heinous”.
The two-child policy was introduced by George Osborne in his 2015 budget. It came into effect in 2017 after MPs backed the measure in the House of Commons.
It means that households claiming child tax credit or universal credit are unable to claim for a third or subsequent child born after 6 April 2017.
Earlier this week, the latest statistics revealed that 1.5 million children were growing up in families impacted by the cap. Children's charities, including Barnados and the Child Poverty Action Group have said this "tax on siblings" is the "biggest driver of rising child poverty in the UK today."
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/rape-clause-row-keir-starmer-090500712.html
There are lots of posters on FWR who feel alienated from Labour, some have even been kicked out.
But then other posters say anything is better than the Tories.
So without listing all the sins of the Tories, it would be really interesting to see information of proposed and actual Labour policies that will be good for women.
I mean actualyl centred on the reality of women's lives, not on the notion that women's rights should go to the back of the queue and women should sacrifice themselves for the "greater good".
Or in fact is the difference between the Tories and Labour wafer thin with nothing but self id being the dividing line.