The new Labour government set out its legislative agenda with a King’s Speech promising to 'make people better off'
The new Labour government set out its legislative agenda with a King’s Speech promising to 'make people better off'faces the threat of an immediate mutiny from his own MPs challenging him over the government’s stance on child benefits and arms sales to Israel.
Separately, Labour backbenchers Richard Burgon and Imran Hussain laid motion to drop a legal challenge made by the previous Government to prevent the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. The PM said “no decisive action has been taken to address the root causes of poverty” which he described as “completely unacceptable”.
According to the government, child poverty has gone up by 700,000 since 2010 with over four million children now growing up in a low-income family. “We will turn the tide on rising poverty levels, so that every child no matter where they come from has the best start in life.”
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