Downing Street has just announced a “Ministerial Taskforce” on child poverty after days of open clamouring from backbenchers for the government to scrap the two-child benefit limit. Liz Kendall and Bridget Phillipson will lead it. There are “heavy hints” it will address the two-child cap and probably get rid of it…
Labour left-wingers planned to table an amendment to the King’s Speech which would remove the cap. Is backbench clamouring and a few tense media interviews with Cabinet members all it takes to ditch “fiscal responsibility”?
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”