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My (very limited) understanding is they want to remove ALL poverty and want to work out the best process to achieve as close to this as possible. If you can lift entire families out of poverty you've achieved the same thing without just (explicitly saying JUST here) removing a single benefit cap.
Not saying it will work or that I'm advocating any position but that's my understanding of the labour position.
You can't do a proper review without all the numbers and the civil service giving you all the data interpretations. That's basic government in this country that only the government has all the info/data.
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I would have thought that a party of the left would be committed to ending child poverty as an immediate priority. Why do Starmer and Reeves propose a review
of child poverty? Surely this should have been done in opposition?
Again, I feel this is down to the Labour hierarchy accepting the Tories' fiscal rules. Starmer and Reeves seem to be pinning all their hopes on economic growth which in effect means that difficult decisions can be deferred because wealth just may trickle downwards. Meanwhile, rising inequality affects us all.
Money is a dynamic process the more the wealthy have the less those at the bottom possess.