As your editorial (14 July) and the piece by Larry Elliott (14 July) say, Labour should not hesitate in scrapping the two-child cap on benefits. How this cruel and unfair policy can be tolerated by a Labour government “laser-focused on poverty” is anyone’s guess.
As Elliott states, there are plenty of ways the chancellor could find the £1.7bn needed to fund its abolition – and scrapping it, in fact, would cost much less when the economic multipliers, with poor families spending most of their income, are taken into consideration.
