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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 17:06:27 JST Mrs Cloudy

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   • JuneSim63

   @junesim63 there was a minister on the News Agents podcast yesterday who wouldn't even say that the 2 child cap was undesirable. They aren't getting rid of it because they don't want to.

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     JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 17:06:28 JST JuneSim63

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     "I hope that the new child poverty taskforce provides the rapid justification for making changes ASAP, and will be making noise to this effect along with many other colleagues."

     #TwoChildCap #Benefits

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     JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 17:06:29 JST JuneSim63

     I wrote to my new Labour MP, James McNaish (nephew of Alastair Campbell) about the two- child benefit cap. Here's his reply:

     "On the two-child benefit cap, it is a source of great frustration for MPs that this hasn't been included in the King’s Speech; BUT it wasn't in our manifesto, so it would have been dangerous politically to start including brand new commitments less than two weeks after a general election. You can imagine the opposition narrative…...cont/

     #TwoChildCap #Benefits