Jeremy Corbyn warns Labour MPs ‘seething with anger’ over Keir Starmer U-turn
Jeremy Corbyn warned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour MPs are “seething with anger” over his U-turn on the two-child profit cap.
The Labour chief on Sunday confirmed he won’t ditch the measure regardless of beforehand pledging to, in a transfer that has sparked a civil conflict inside the get together.
But his predecessor Mr Corbyn warned there was fury amongst Labour MPs over the refusal to axe the Tory coverage.
He advised LBC: “I have spoken to quite a lot of Labour MPs about it yesterday, not so much on the front bench, but I have spoken to many about it and they are seething with anger, particularly as commitments have been made regularly by the party that will take children out of poverty.
“Even the Blair authorities, which Keir Starmer typically quotes, did do a fantastic deal to elevate youngsters out of poverty by not having a two-child coverage.”
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Asked if he believed there could possibly be frontbench resignations over the row, he mentioned: “Well there could possibly be. I ought to assume many individuals are very upset about it as a result of it is a pretty basic level about social justice.
“For expenditure of £1.3billion we could end the two-child policy, we could lift hundreds of thousands of children out of very desperate poverty and almost 850,000 out of relative poverty, thus improving the life chances of all of them.”
Mr Corbyn added: “It’s got to go.”
He additionally urged deputy Labour chief Angela Rayner, who beforehand branded the cap “obscene and inhumane”, to push to scrap it.
The Islington North MP mentioned: “I think Angela’s description of policy is absolutely right. And I hope that Angela will use her influence to ensure this policy of limiting benefits to the first two children will end under a Labour government.”
Shadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell this morning defended protecting the cap as she confused the get together’s give attention to financial accountability.
The Labour frontbencher advised Sky News: “We’ve opposed this policy, this is not a good policy, we’ve opposed it for many years through Parliament, but we’re now in a very different economic situation.
“As a well-known phrase would go, there is no such thing as a cash left, the Government has completely tanked the financial system.”
Told her Shadow Cabinet colleague Jonathan Ashworth has called the policy “heinous”, Ms Powell added: “Both will be true on the identical time, that issues is usually a dangerous coverage, they are often dangerous politics, however the financial actuality is what we’re now confronted with.
“There are lots of bad policies… we’re not implementing them, it’s about not reversing…
“We’ve obtained an entire vary of insurance policies which can be going to rework this nation however we will not do every thing that we’d need to do as a result of the financial actuality of what we will inherit is so dire.”