Starmer looks at scrapping UK’s two-child benefit cap

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According to government officials, Sir Care Starmar is looking to cancel the two-year-old benefit cap in an attempt to satisfy the labor MP, potentially left a hole in the autumn budget.

The Prime Minister of the UK has announced the solution to child poverty and is seeking his welfare reforms to rebellion by MPs by MPs. He says in a personal conversation that he is interested in finding a way to fully scrap the two-child benefit cap.

According to officials, other alternatives are being focused on other alternatives, although the Secretary of the Working Secretary, Liz Bidal, was also in favor of canceling the cap.

However, the government’s child poverty strategy, which was expected to be published in the spring, has been delayed in autumn because the potential expenses will be involved in any of the possible expenses that will be involved in scrapping the benefit cap, according to people who briefed the move.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is widely expected to raise taxes in the autumn in the autumn, though more welfare expenditure is seen as another way to fill the revenue hole.

The UK government has unexpectedly increased behind higher public expenditure in April with Orrow, pressing on Reeves before reviewing next month’s expenditure.

Stermer hint A partial U-Turn this week in a separate policy – The decision to remove winter fuel from 10 million pensioners – he says he wants to bring more pensioners under the benefit.

Next month, MPs will vote in his welfare cut package, about 5 people are ready to lose access to the benefits of disability. Many contenders who need to be washed, or requested to use toilet or use the toilet may no longer be eligible.

Labor parliamentarians involved in organizing the rebels say that the proposals do not agree with more than 600, and are planning to abstain or vote against it.

Starma’s party is aware of the need to maintain unity and uprising, even in the right to the rightwing parties, especially the UK resistance to the UK resistance, reached the right to the rights such as welfare, immigration and trans writers.

The decision was intended to save £ 1.5bn last July to end the universal winter fuel. Some of these savings will create problems for reversible reaves, while removing the two-child cap will add more than $ 3 billion holes.

Reeves understand that expensive principles should not be declared too far from a financial event, while the offices for the budget are spent by the office, financial surveillance.

According to the Resolution Foundation, about 1.5 million children are forecast to be in poverty in 2021-5, according to the Resolution Foundation, there are two children’s limit, including half of the larger family.

Meanwhile, Starmer’s Chief of Staff, Morgan McSwini was warned to raise much foundation for welfare in an attempt to satisfy the Labor MPs. Last year, an Yugov survey found that more than 5 percent of the conservative and reformer voters supported the PERCent 5 percent of the public in the public.

As part of the review review, the ministers involved in controlling public expenditure as part of the review and a Chancellor’s ally said: “If some people do what we want in the benefit cap, it will add further pressure.”

A friend of Kendal said that although the movement on the winter fuel was welcomed by the members of parliament, the bold steps on child poverty were more likely to suppress reforms to support their illness and disability. “Child poverty is relevant to that debate,” they said.

A senior minister close to Starmer agreed: “We have to do something about our child poverty.”