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Gordon Brown demands ‘total abolition’ of two-child benefit limit ahead of Budget
“Total abolition is far preferable to any tapering or any other kind of reform that would not abolish the two-child rule in its entirety."
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Labour conference: The child benefit cap is a blow to struggling families
Labour's record on child poverty is an admirable one. So it's even more of a shame that Ed Balls has allowed the axe to fall on child benefit.
Why is Liam Byrne so keen to out-do the Tories on social security cuts?
It is well known these cuts have been savage, unfair, and that they seriously affect the disabled. But what if they actually targeted the disabled, hitting them the hardest, piling all the harshest cuts on the services that are actually the most vital?
Why do we think there’s a magic solution to child benefit?
If there is anything that really gets up the nose of the right it's single mothers on benefits. No, in fact it's any parents claiming benefits, as the sorry media sage around Mick Philpott demonstrated.
BBC slavishly follows government line on impact of benefits cap
It is disappointing to again see the BBC reporting government statistics on the benefits cap without even the remotest hint of challenge as to what they mean.
Daniel Hannan: wrong about everything on the benefit cap
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has a piece in today's Telegraph in which he claims the left has "lost its moral compass on welfare".