Scotland’s Labour voters support two-child cap, poll finds

To Scotland, where a new poll has revealed results the Nats may be rather unhappy to see. It now transpires that more Labour voters north of the border support the UK government’s two-child benefit cap than oppose it – just days after the SNP said they would scrap the policy in Scotland. How very interesting…

A Norstat poll for The Sunday Times revealed that 34 per cent of Labour voters in Scotland oppose John Swinney’s move to abolish the two-child cap, while only 31 per cent support its reversal. Despite the Scottish Greens blasting the Conservative policy as ‘morally bankrupt’, the party’s voters were the biggest proponents of the policy with only a quarter of the eco-activists keen to see it repealed. And, rather curiously, it turns out that over half of those planning to vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform party next year actually support the Nats’ decision to remove the cap.