The shadow welfare secretary had called the two-child cap 'heinous' but has changed his stance since Keir Starmer said he would not ditch it
Jon Ashworth: Labour pledges plan to beat child poverty ‘on every front’ in wake of child benefit cap rowThe shadow welfare secretary had called the two-child cap ‘heinous’ but has changed his stance since Keir Starmer said he would not ditch itFrancis ElliottJon Ashworth is in a difficult position. In June the shadow welfare secretary described a rule stopping families from claiming
“The question isn’t how you spend a billion extra and say that’s social justice,” he says. “When you’ve got the state spending hundreds of billions of pounds across the board you’ve got to reform the way in which you spend and look at ways you can make a difference. He won’t say whether he believes that it is morally wrong for the state to seek to limit family sizes. “I’m not going to pass judgement on that.”
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