On the Aylesbury estate in London this week, I met residents who recall the impact Blair had. This government will go even further, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
On the Aylesbury estate in London this week, I met residents who recall the impact Blair had. This government will go even furtherwill eat my hat – or several – if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don’t soon find the money to bury the pernicious two-child benefit cap. The sum is very small: a merein absolute poverty, nothing else they could buy at that price could do so much; and it would show their intent to return to Labour’s ambition to abolish child poverty.
After 30 years as a tenants’ association campaigner on the Aylesbury estate, Jean Bartlett MBE is still at it. We’ve met often there over the years, and yesterday we talked over the programmes of the previous Labour era and hopes of a revival. The boldest was the new deal for communities that picked the 39 worst estates in the country and gave them a large sum to be spent by the tenants themselves, with genuine community power.
He is one of 20 council leaders writing this month to Angela Rayner as new secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, warning that far from increasing social housing, “council housing finances are completely broken and the system’s future is in danger”.
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