Shadow foreign secretary says Conservatives should hold the leadership election after the party conferenceKeir Starmer faces a possible test to his authority in the Commons next week after the SNP said that it would table an amendment to the king’s speech saying the two-child benefit cap should be abolished.In a letter to the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, Stephen Flynn, said that “the moment Keir Starmer stepped into Downing Street, the Tory two-child cap became the Labour party two-child cap”.The two-child cap is pushing thousands of Scottish children into poverty – and scrapping it is the bare minimum the Labour party government must do if it is serious about tackling poverty.I urge Keir Starmer to include it in his programme for government this week but, if he fails, the SNP will lay an amendment to abolish it immediately. It is shameful and it must go now.It will be a top priority for me, so I think you can read into that that there’ll be early action from this government.I’m very keen that it becomes an issue that we take party politics out of and that we get behind the fans, we get behind grassroots football, and we get behind kids in this country who deserve the right standards. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2024-07-15 12:02:48
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