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🌹🧵 MOTION FOR LABOUR CONFERENCE - SCRAP THE TWO CHILD LIMIT 🌹
We've put together this model motion on scrapping the two child limit, for your CLPs to take to Conference.
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Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
Exclusive: Neil Kinnock says the two-child benefit limit should be scrapped to lift kids out of poverty
Former Labour leader says it could be paid for by a tax on assets of the super-rich or extra levies on the top 1%
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Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.”
Former PM @GordonBrown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem”
#Peston
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
Cutting disability support is unpopular and will hit Labour areas hardest.
There is an alternative to austerity:
▪️Withdraw the planned cuts.
▪️Work with disabled people to create a fairer system.
▪️Tax the wealthiest to pay for it.
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
I will be voting against these welfare cuts. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
If the Government chooses to bring harmful disability benefit cuts to Parliament, I will not vote to make my constituents poorer.
I will vote against these proposals.
My statement below. 👇
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
The Government’s own analysis shows disability benefit cuts will force hundreds of thousands into poverty.
There is an alternative: bin austerity policies and tax the rich to tackle poverty & ill health at their root.
My article for @tribunemagazine 👇🏼
'The government is right is that there is a moral crusade. But it is to tackle the social determinants of ill health and the causes of poverty — not to cut the benefits of the poorest and most vulnerable in our society,' writes @NeilForPoole. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/the…
The cuts to welfare announced in this week’s spring statement risk driving thousands of children into poverty, the polar opposite of what a Labour government should do.
We strongly urge the Chancellor to reconsider these cuts.
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Liz Kendall rightly said “child poverty is a scar on our society. It harms children’s life chances and our country as a whole.”
The government has rightly committed to tackling child poverty head on through its Child Poverty Taskforce…
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However, it cannot be right that at the same time they’re pushing through welfare cuts that risk 3.2 million families losing an average of £1,720, including an additional 50,000 children who face being pushed into relative poverty.
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Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
We were in parliament today with @EndChildPoverty @oxfamgb @UNICEF_uk @actnforchildren @the_kidsnetwork to highlight a new record high level of child poverty. And the fact that 44% of all children living in poverty are living in a household where someone is disabled.
ALT People standing outside parliament with road sign placards with messages like 'stop child poverty going up', 'look out for children'.
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
250 000 plunged into poverty
50 000 of them children
This is unconscionable. My constituents know I have always fought poverty. I will not stop now.
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
My full statement on today's Spring Statement:
#WelfareNotWarfare
‘The benefit cap put millions of children in poverty overnight’
And lifting it would change that overnight. theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
'The two-child cap on benefits was one of the cruellest policies of the Osborne era ... It affects more than 1.5 million children. Just the simple measure of scrapping this cap would lift about 300,000 children out of poverty.' @johnmcdonnellMP
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
I have spent my whole career in and out of Parliament working to end child poverty. I will continue to work with the Government to scrap the two-child cap.
I wrote in @TheHouseMag about this cruel policy✒️📰
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ALT This picture shows an article by Emma Lewell-Buck MP on the two-child cap in the House Magazine.
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
A couple of years ago I proposed a law in Parliament to introduce free school meals for all.
This would tackle child poverty and guarantee every primary school pupil has a hot healthy meal each day.
Today I joined campaigners in Westminster to renew this call.
ALT Zarah speaking outside Parliament.
ALT Zarah, singer Joy Crookes, and Kim Johnson MP holding a placard reading "I support free school meals for all".
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
I support scrapping the two-child benefit cap, which is absolutely essential to tackle child poverty.
I hope that by working closely and constructively with our Labour Govt, and with more time to find the funding, we have the chance to scrap it as soon as possible.
My letter👇🏾
Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty retweeted
I voted tonight to scrap the two-child limit, and I am disappointed to have had the whip suspended over this vote. But it was important for me to stand up for my constituents who are amongst the worst affected by a policy that every organisation fighting child poverty has urged the Government to scrap.
The two-child limit is one of the biggest factors driving the soaring child poverty rate that sees almost half of all children in Bradford East living in homes that are unable to make ends meet.
I remain committed to this Government's bold plans for a New Deal for Working People, Great British Energy, public ownership of rail, and others to undo 14 years of damage caused by the Tories, but as I set out last week, we must do much more to address child poverty.