Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty

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[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

🌹🧵 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.

https://t.co/1K93mawT3d

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[Ashley Cowburn @ashcowburn]

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%

https://t.co/7XoQsDW9UH

[Peston @itvpeston]

“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

[Neil Duncan-Jordan MP @NeilForPoole]

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.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

I will be voting against these welfare cuts. https://t.co/tFwOWdSsBB

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

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. 👇

[Neil Duncan-Jordan MP @NeilForPoole]

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 👇🏼

[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

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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https://t.co/LifuqFA8Cv

[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

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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[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

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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[Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK]

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.

[Connor Naismith MP @connor_naismith]

A statement on welfare reform ⬇️

[Emma Lewell MP @EmmaLewell]

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.

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

My full statement on today's Spring Statement:

#WelfareNotWarfare

[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

‘The benefit cap put millions of children in poverty overnight’
And lifting it would change that overnight. https://t.co/x26jlol7AU

[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

https://t.co/Hcwxb7ab4B

[Labour Campaign to End Child Poverty @LabourChildPov]

'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
https://t.co/R0CPFxDbVY

[Emma Lewell MP @EmmaLewell]

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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https://t.co/7dJ2KyV295

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

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.

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

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👇🏾

[Imran Hussain MP @Imran_HussainMP]

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.