WE are back to the days of ‘“what’s the point of Labour?”
We learn from Labour leaders that it would cost £1.3 billion to abolish the two-child cap policy. Surely what we ought to take from this statement is that the Tories have been saving well over a billion annually off the backs of the poorest since this policy was introduced in 2017. For Labour not to commit to righting this wrong beggars belief.
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However, when we look back to 1998 we find Blair similarly taking his party to the right, which provoked the Scottish Labour conference of March that year to declare a proposed New Labour benefit cut for lone parents as “discriminatory, economically inept, morally repugnant and spiritually bereft".
Oh that today’s Scottish Labour had the backbone to robustly confront the two-child benefit cap in the same way and challenge Starmer’s relentless drift (with the old puppeteers Blair and Mandelson no doubt still pulling strings) to the politics of division and hopelessness and the Tory right.
Joan Skinner
Edinburgh
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