Starmer facing rebellion over two-child benefit cap

Uh oh. While Sir Keir Starmer’s popularity has had a post-election bounce (with an approval rating now at 19 per cent compared to -1 before the Labour win) not everything is looking rosy for the new Prime Minister. Splits over certain policy stances are beginning to emerge and the two-child benefit cap is taking centre stage.

Rosie Duffield is one of the latest Labour MPs to hit out at the scheme – blasting it as ‘social cleansing’ and an ‘unequal piece of legislation’. Calling on Starmer’s army to scrap the rule, Duffield writes in the Sunday Times today that:

It is a heinous piece of legislation and the reason above all others that I was driven to stand as a member of parliament… When proclamations on benefits are handed down by the great and the good in Westminster, the stark divide between the wealthy and those struggling is never more visible… The cruelty of the two-child limit is Gilead-level.