SNP call on Labour backbenchers to push for end to two-child cap

SNP call on Labour backbenchers to push for end to two-child cap

LABOUR backbenchers have been urged to use their "appetite for rebellion" to pressure the UK Government into dropping the two-child…

Labour’s two-child cap hits 580 Angus families - Graeme Dey

The SNP government’s decision to scrap Labour’s two child cap will help 580 families in Angus as new figures reveal the number of households impacted by the cap. Across Scotland, the cap affects almost 30,000 households, with Keir Starmer’s previous promises to scrap it now falling on deaf ears. According to their own estimates, keeping the cap will push 250,000 people – including 50,000 children – into poverty. By ending it on 2nd March 2026, t…

Labour and ending poverty - Sceptical Scot

The Labour Party has often been wracked by disputes over ideological differences, but there has always been an internal consensus among the various factional players that a minimal aim of Labour in government is to reduce poverty. Gaitskellite, Bevanite, Blairite, Brownite, Corbynite: all agreed that Labour had a distinctive distributional mission that sought to use the state to improve the position of the worst off. The Conservatives, by contra…