SNP by-election candidate Katy Loudon has committed to introducing a Private Member’s Bill to abolish
Library, which shows scrapping the two-child benefit cap, and the bedroom tax, would cost a fraction of the £12 billion that Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out raising by taxing the wealthy to fund cost of living support for families.
Previously, Reeves claimed she couldn’t scrap the cap or the bedroom tax because: “It’s not something at the moment we have the finances to afford to be able to do.”Loudon said: “Within the first 100 days of becoming an MP, I pledge to introduce a Private Member’s Bill to abolish the abhorrent two-child benefit cap and rape clause.
“This is a simple, yet crucial, act that would show constituents I am willing to not only stand up for them, but protect the most vulnerable in our society."If the Labour Party in Scotland is serious about tackling child poverty they should have no reservations about publicly backing my plans to introduce this bill as an MP.
“Voters in Rutherglen and Hamilton West must be in no doubt that a vote for the SNP is a vote to reject cruel
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