Keir Starmer must reassure voters that a Labour government will not keep the two-child benefit cap in place says AndyBurnhamGM The mayor for Greater Manchester joined the growing backlash over the Labour leader’s refusal to scrap the Tory policy
“And then we get into that position – and we have been in one of those in the last few days – they say ‘oh don’t like that one, can we just not make that one, I am sure there is a tough decision somewhere else we can make’.”
“The answer would have been the same whether the question had been about declining spending or spending more health spending,” they said. And two major unions, Unison and Usdaw, are to back an amendment at the policy forum to oppose the cap, urgingLabour MP John McDonnell, who was shadow chancellor under, said: “It’s clear that people are fed up of the Tories – but they want real change, too. That means public services like water, energy and rail in public ownership, not making profits for shareholders at our expense. It means a welfare system which actually supports the poor and the vulnerable, instead of stigmatising them.
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