“A challenge”. The British government is considering eliminating the limit of the number of children to grant allocations
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks before holding a defense and security speech. Photo: AFP / Profimedia
The Labor government of the United Kingdom considers it to eliminate the limit of granting the allowances only for two children. Keir Starmer's party re -evaluates several policies to stop decreased polls after a year since he won the election, reports Reuters.
The Labor Party has undergone significant defeats in the local elections since the beginning of the month, losing ground in front of the right -wing party Reform UK led by Nigel Farage, which now leads to national polls. Last week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested that it is open to canceling a payment for winter warming granted to the elderly, and now the Government is considering eliminating the ceiling for families with more than two children, a measure that analysts and critics say they worsen poverty.
The Minister of Education, Bridget Phillipson, asked if the Government will give up this ceiling, introduced by the Conservative Government in 2017, replied that “it is possible.”
“No measure is excluded,” she told Times Radio, adding that a work group to combat poverty among children analyzes “numerous ways” to solve the problem.
“But, of course, we cannot ignore the impact of changes in the social assistance system that have been introduced by the Conservatives and which a Labor government would never have adopted. But it is difficult, it is a challenge,” she added.
After winning the elections in July last year, the Labor Party cut the winter heating payments and refused to eliminate the ceiling for allowances for more than two children, on the grounds that the expense reductions were needed to cover a budget deficit left by the previous conservative government.
The party even suspended seven parliamentarians, for six months, because they voted in favor of eliminating the ceiling, a position that the government is now considering.
John McDonnell, one of the seven, said the elimination of the ceiling would remove hundreds of thousands of children from poverty, but was “attacked by many of the ministers who now support the measure”, after last year's vote led to his suspension by the Labor Party.
“Stop with delay and do it simply,” he said.
