Reform UK’s candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Gorton and Denton suggested that people who don’t have children should be taxed extra as punishment, an unearthed blog post has revealed.
In a proposal that has prompted comparisons to dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale – which is set in a society that forces women to bear children in an effort to tackle a fertility crisis – Matt Goodwin suggested imposing a “negative child benefit tax” on “those who don’t have offspring”.
