WES Streeting has been slated for continuing to defend “the single most heinous policy” of the Tory austerity years after one of the UK’s most…
Wes Streeting has continued to defend the child benefit cap even as a Tory MP called for it to be scrappedWES Streeting has been slated for continuing to defend “the single most heinous policy” of the Tory austerity years after one of the UK’s most right-wing MPs’s shadow health secretary defended his party’s position of keeping the two-child benefit cap despite ex-home secretary Suella Braverman suggesting it should be pulled in a column for the Daily Telegraph.
Whitford told The National: “It is probably the single most heinous policy to come out of the 14 years of Tory austerity and so this coming from a future health secretary shows, to me, a failure to understand health. “The idea of deliberately driving children into poverty and the fact Labour would keep this how far they have come from any values they ever espoused?
“That means that if you aren’t doing the right thing, and earning a living and playing by the rules, that you don’t just have enough to make ends meet, but you have enough to do the things that make life worth living. And we’re some way from that from that now.” The associated “rape clause” creates an exception for a child born as a result of non-consensual conception. The UK Government have repeatedly been accused of forcing victims to relive their trauma to prove they have been raped so they can receive child benefits.“The two-child benefit cap is one of the most disgraceful and cruel policies of this Tory government. It has plunged thousands of children and families into totally avoidable poverty,” she told The National.
"There is far more for us to do in Scotland, and I hope that any future Labour government would work with us rather than doubling down on brutal Tory policies.”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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