Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty
@LabourChildPov
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🌹🧵 MOTION FOR LABOUR CONFERENCE - SCRAP THE TWO CHILD LIMIT 🌹 We've put together this model motion on scrapping the two child limit, for your CLPs to take to Conference. https://t.co/1K93mawT3d (1/ )
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SCRAP THE TWO-CHILD LIMIT Conference notes: 1. Labour’s Five Missions include ‘a focus on reducing child poverty’. 2. The two-child limit on child tax credits and Universal Credit is a major driver...
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Exclusive: Neil Kinnock says the two-child benefit limit should be scrapped to lift kids out of poverty Former Labour leader says it could be paid for by a tax on assets of the super-rich or extra levies on the top 1% https://t.co/7XoQsDW9UH
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In an interview with The Mirror, the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said the Tories had left the country in a state that would 'make Charles Dickens furious' with 'intolerable' hardship
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“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM @GordonBrown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston
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Cutting disability support is unpopular and will hit Labour areas hardest. There is an alternative to austerity: ▪️Withdraw the planned cuts. ▪️Work with disabled people to create a fairer system. ▪️Tax the wealthiest to pay for it.
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I will be voting against these welfare cuts.
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Letters: Readers express their dismay at Rachel Reeves’s spring statement, with some lifelong party members feeling no longer able to support it
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If the Government chooses to bring harmful disability benefit cuts to Parliament, I will not vote to make my constituents poorer. I will vote against these proposals. My statement below. 👇
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The Government’s own analysis shows disability benefit cuts will force hundreds of thousands into poverty. There is an alternative: bin austerity policies and tax the rich to tackle poverty & ill health at their root. My article for @tribunemagazine 👇🏼
'The government is right is that there is a moral crusade. But it is to tackle the social determinants of ill health and the causes of poverty — not to cut the benefits of the poorest and most vulnerable in our society,' writes @NeilForPoole.
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However, it cannot be right that at the same time they’re pushing through welfare cuts that risk 3.2 million families losing an average of £1,720, including an additional 50,000 children who face being pushed into relative poverty. (3/3) https://t.co/LifuqFA8Cv
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Liz Kendall rightly said “child poverty is a scar on our society. It harms children’s life chances and our country as a whole.” The government has rightly committed to tackling child poverty head on through its Child Poverty Taskforce… (2/3)
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The cuts to welfare announced in this week’s spring statement risk driving thousands of children into poverty, the polar opposite of what a Labour government should do. We strongly urge the Chancellor to reconsider these cuts. (1/3)
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We were in parliament today with @EndChildPoverty @oxfamgb @UNICEF_uk @actnforchildren @the_kidsnetwork to highlight a new record high level of child poverty. And the fact that 44% of all children living in poverty are living in a household where someone is disabled.
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250 000 plunged into poverty 50 000 of them children This is unconscionable. My constituents know I have always fought poverty. I will not stop now.
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‘The benefit cap put millions of children in poverty overnight’ And lifting it would change that overnight.
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With parents going without meals to feed their children, and bills rising, residents and councillors talk of the problems they see every day
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'The two-child cap on benefits was one of the cruellest policies of the Osborne era ... It affects more than 1.5 million children. Just the simple measure of scrapping this cap would lift about 300,000 children out of poverty.' @johnmcdonnellMP
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Seven of us voted for a motion to end the two-child benefit cap – not as ‘gesture politics’, but to fight for a cause we believe in, says the MP John McDonnell
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I have spent my whole career in and out of Parliament working to end child poverty. I will continue to work with the Government to scrap the two-child cap. I wrote in @TheHouseMag about this cruel policy✒️📰 👇 https://t.co/7dJ2KyV295
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A couple of years ago I proposed a law in Parliament to introduce free school meals for all. This would tackle child poverty and guarantee every primary school pupil has a hot healthy meal each day. Today I joined campaigners in Westminster to renew this call.
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I support scrapping the two-child benefit cap, which is absolutely essential to tackle child poverty. I hope that by working closely and constructively with our Labour Govt, and with more time to find the funding, we have the chance to scrap it as soon as possible. My letter👇🏾
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I voted tonight to scrap the two-child limit, and I am disappointed to have had the whip suspended over this vote. But it was important for me to stand up for my constituents who are amongst the worst affected by a policy that every organisation fighting child poverty has urged
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