Sir Keir Starmer is right to make a big show of the government’s decision to restore the child element of universal credit to families with more than two children. He and the rest of the Labour Party are right to be proud of the reduction in child poverty that will follow.
The decision was announced in the Budget last week. The wider child poverty strategy was unveiled on Friday. Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary who led the formulation of the strategy, will make a statement in parliament next week. This is a decision that the Labour government wants people to notice, and an argument in which it wants to engage.
