US EditionStarmer Clashes with Senior MP over Welfare Reform
GREATER LONDON, ENGLAND, JUL 20 – Labour leader Keir Starmer faces pressure from MPs to scrap the two-child benefit cap amid warnings it pushes 109 children daily into poverty, risking a rise under his government.
- At the House of Commons Liaison Committee, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced calls to axe the two-child benefit limit, highlighting internal party and policy tensions.
- Recently, government analysis warned PIP cuts could push 250,000 into poverty, while Bridget Phillipson said scrapping the measure remains on the table.
- Child Poverty Action Group chief Alison Garnham said `the key question for the PM is given his government has a moral mission to reduce child poverty, will he now commit to scrapping the two-child limit in the autumn child poverty strategy?`
- On housing, councils are forced to bid for the same housing stock for homeless families and asylum seekers, Florence Eshalomi highlighted.
- Ahead of the Autumn Budget, Sir Keir Starmer could revisit the frozen local housing allowance, as MPs question housing support amid the crisis.
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Starmer clashes with senior MP over welfare reform
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was being questioned by the Commons Liaison Committee.
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