Writing in his Daily Record column, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn says Scottish Labour MPs should back his party's amendment to the King's Speech.
The new PM had it in his gift to scrap the two-child cap as part of his King's Speech. He could have said, with absolute authority, that his government would deliver meaningful change and take bold steps to end child poverty.
They successfully won a massive mandate and a massive change after 14 years of the Conservatives is exactly what this King’s Speech should have delivered. With an enormous Westminster majority it would be simple for it to be scrapped, but that is ultimately a political choice and how Sir Keir Starmer addressed that choice determined the priorities of his government.And let’s be clear, while this was a Tory policy forged in the depths of an austerity budget, for every week the two-child benefit cap remains in place it is another week that the Labour Party must take ownership of its impact.
But we know the two-child cap has had no impact on fertility rates and the small amount of capital saved is more than outstripped by the cost of the endemic poverty it fuels. If Scottish Labour is serious about real change and if they want to eradicate child poverty then they can take the first, basic step towards doing just that – the Labour Party don’t need a taskforce, they just need to vote for the SNP amendment.
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