KEIR Starmer has said that a Labour government could impose a two-child cap on benefits “more fairly” than a Tory one – and insisted that…
government could impose a two-child cap on benefits “more fairly” than a Tory one – and insisted that economic growth should be the first plank of an anti-poverty strategy.
Speaking to journalists after a Q&A event alongside Scottish Labour’s Anas Sarwar, Starmer was asked why Labour could not cost – and then commit to – scrapping the benefit cap. “That’s the approach we’ll take going into the election and as we get closer to the election any such commitments as we make will be fully funded.”
During the Q&A session in front of Labour activists – where the questions were hand-picked and the majority asked by Labour councillor Kirsty Williams – Starmer repeatedly said that growing theLabour leaders respond to calls to 'block SNP's independence spending'
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