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A golden opportunity to lift thousands of kids out of poverty
The Labour government must rescind the two-child benefit cap or risk irreparable damage to its legacy, writes TOMMY KANE
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One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
THIS coming Wednesday Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer have the chance to lift over half a million British children out of poverty by scrapping the two-child limit.
If this Labour government really wants to deliver change, then urgently addressing child poverty must surely be a priority.
No review is needed about whether scrapping the two-child limit will help rescue child poverty, and no more consultations are required for us to understand whether the lives of children currently mired in a daily grind of survival will be improved if Labour abolishes this “morally odious” policy.
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