In full: The Herald's open letter calling for Sir Keir Starmer to scrap benefit cap

In full: The Herald's open letter calling for Sir Keir Starmer to scrap benefit cap

The Herald, backed by 23 leading charities, has urged Sir Keir Starmer to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Labour benefit cuts 'to cost UK economy £38bn per year', expert report finds

Labour's cuts to benefits and welfare payments are costing the economy tens of billions in lost productivity every year, according to a new report…

Labour Will Never Scrap 2-Child Cap - Graeme Dey

Only SNP Protecting Scotland’s Values The Labour party has admitted they have no plans to ever end the two-child benefit cap – despite the SNP confirming they will scrap the cruel Westminster policy in Scotland.As reported in The Herald, a source in Keir Starmer’s Labour party said: “If they still think we’re going to scrap the cap then they’re listening to the wrong people.”The Labour source added, “We’re simply not going to find a way to do th…

Compared to France, the United Kingdom could almost be regarded as an ace of fiscal seriousness: its public debt is around 100% of GDP when we are already at 113 % and on track to exceed 115 % by the end of the year. However, for the UK's budgetary responsibility agency, such a level will not be sustainable forever. Thus, in the autumn of 2024, the new Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Finance Minister Rachel Reeves presented a painful …

DWP might have to ditch major benefit cuts after 'urgent rethink'

A report by the Trussell Trust said the UK's elevated levels of poverty meant the economy was missing out on more than £38billion each year in potential output, ahead of potential DWP cuts

Labour’s benefit cuts could cost UK economy billions, warns Trussell Trust – Your Capital Minds

Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been warned that its tough stance on benefits risks costing the UK economy more than £38 billion a year while pushing more people into poverty and increasing pressure on public services. The anti-poverty charity the Trussell Trust said that, despite Labour’s repeated promises of no return to austerity, attempts to curb welfare spending could have severe economic and human consequences. In a report commissione…