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JEREMY CORBYN dropped Labour’s controversial support for the Tory benefit cap yesterday, saying it caused “social cleansing.”
Mr Corbyn, elected Labour leader on Saturday, won two standing ovations at TUC Congress as he tore into Tory “poverty-deniers.”
And in his first major policy change, he announced it was now Labour’s official position to oppose the benefit cap and Welfare Reform.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
