SNP pushes Labour on bed room tax stance
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he SNP has pushed Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer to decide to scrapping the so-called bed room tax if his social gathering wins the subsequent election.
Labour has come underneath strain in current weeks after Sir Keir’s failure to decide to scrapping the two-child profit cap as a consequence of uncertainty across the UK’s financial outlook.
The under-occupation deduction, described by opponents because the bed room tax, sees profit claimants have their funds lowered if they’ve an unoccupied bed room.
New figures revealed by the House of Commons Library present greater than 500,000 households had been impacted by the coverage within the UK as of May final 12 months, together with 374,366 in England, 97,425 in Scotland and 32,497 in Wales.
SNP social justice spokesman David Linden known as on Sir Keir to decide to scrapping the measure if he wins the keys to Downing Street after the subsequent election.
“Sir Keir Starmer must admit whether the pro-Brexit Labour Party is secretly planning to keep the Tory bedroom tax, which cut the incomes of almost 100,000 low income households in Scotland last year – and more than half a million households across the UK,” he mentioned.
“It’s clearer by the day that the SNP is the only party offering real change with independence and real help with the cost of living. In contrast, (Rishi) Sunak and Starmer are lurching further to the right and taking money away from millions of households across Scotland and the UK.
“People in Scotland are crying out for change from the damage of Westminster control – but all they are getting from the Tories and pro-Brexit Labour Party are more cuts to household incomes, more cuts to public services, and more long-term decline with Brexit.
“At the next election, voting SNP is the only way to secure independence, tackle the cost of living, and get rid of unelected Tory governments for good.”
The Alba Party echoed the SNP name on Friday, with its Westminster chief Neale Hanvey saying: “If Starmer’s logic is that he won’t scrap the Tory two-child cap then it is increasingly likely that if in government his Labour Party wouldn’t scrap the bedroom tax either.
“It’s time for the Labour Party to come clean, if they get into government will they scrap the bedroom tax or keep it?”