Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits
Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse itLabour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has urged.Rising levels of poverty “would make Charles...
<p>Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it</p><p>Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has urged.</p><p>Rising levels of poverty “would make Charles Dickens furious”, Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror, in which he also called on ministers to introduce a wealth tax.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/16/neil-kinnock-calls-for-government-to-scrap-two-child-cap-on-benefits">Continue reading...</a>
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