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Home secretary says the move ‘sends a message to every migrant currently thinking of paying organised crime gangs to go to the UK’In his Today programme interview Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, said that child poverty would get worse over the coming years if the two-child benefit cap remains because it functions as an “escalator” for poverty. He said:We’re dealing with a social crisis. We’re dealing with poor children that are living what you might say are separate lives. If I tell you that a million children will be trying to sleep tonight without a bed of their own, that two million children are in homes which don’t have either a cooker or a fridge or a washing machine, and certainly are not being able to spend money on hygiene goods like toothpaste and soap and shampoo, and that three million children are skipping meals …This problem is getting worse. It’s going to worsen over the next few years because there’s a built in escalator in the poverty figures, because of the two-child rule. By the early 2030s five million children would be in poverty. And these are record figures, unprecedented since figures [started being] collected in the 1960s.You’re now asking me to go into the whole area of welfare expenditure. And if I were to do that, I would have a complete review of that …I‘m not going to say, look, let’s take this one measure at the expense of others. Let’s look at it as a whole … Continue reading...
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Home secretary says the move ‘sends a message to every migrant currently thinking of paying organised crime gangs to go to the UK’
In his Today programme interview Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, said that child poverty would get worse over the coming years if the two-child benefit cap remains because it functions as an “escalator” for poverty. He said:
We’re dealing with a social crisis. We’re dealing with poor children that are living what you might say are separate lives. If I tell you that a million children will be trying to sleep tonight without a bed of their own, that two million children are in homes which don’t have either a cooker or a fridge or a washing machine, and certainly are not being able to spend money on hygiene goods like toothpaste and soap and shampoo, and that three million children are skipping meals …
This problem is getting worse. It’s going to worsen over the next few years because there’s a built in escalator in the poverty figures, because of the two-child rule. By the early 2030s five million children would be in poverty. And these are record figures, unprecedented since figures [started being] collected in the 1960s.
You’re now asking me to go into the whole area of welfare expenditure. And if I were to do that, I would have a complete review of that …
I‘m not going to say, look, let’s take this one measure at the expense of others. Let’s look at it as a whole …
Continue reading...
