You can tell Keir Starmer to scrap the two-child benefit cap – using a nifty tool powered by left-wing group Momentum.

If you have a Labour MP, you can directly urge them to support moves to scrap the cap – either as part of the King’s Speech or an amendment to it. If you don’t, then you can urge prime minister Keir Starmer to see reason instead.

All you have to do to get started is click here.

Left-wing Labour MP Kim Johnson has said she will table an amendment to the King’s Speech, calling for the change, if it is not included in the speech itself.

In an email to members of the public, she said: “I have long campaigned for the removal of the two-child benefit cap. This piece of legislation is cruel, punitive and has pushed even more families into poverty amidst an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis.

“According to the Child Poverty Action Group, an estimated 1.6 million children are now affected by the two-child benefit cap. This inhumane policy will haunt the Tories’ legacy for years to come, and the Labour Government is now in prime position to scrap it.”

The official Labour Party position is that abolishing the cap is unaffordable without economic growth. That’s what Angela Rayner was saying on the morning media round – and she’s had short shrift for it from the public:

To every Labour supporter who voted for ‘change’. Look at what you’ve done 👇🏻 Ladder puller upper Rayner accepts kids don’t have a bed to sleep in or food. Labour have money for warfare but not for welfare. We’re not ‘frustrated’. We’re bloody angry 😠 #LabourScum https://t.co/POvfaDFiMU

— Teri ☘️💙♿️ (@mettlesome_teri) July 16, 2024

In fact, it seems there is an entirely affordable way to achieve the change:

The Bankers Tax cut in April 2023 that they said they don’t want costs £7.3bn a year.

The 2 child benefit cap costs £2bn.

Get rid of the Bankers Tax cut and the 2 child cap, and have £5bn spare.

— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) July 16, 2024

So Labour’s argument is, on the fact of it, nonsense.

If the King’s Speech does not include a promise to abolish the cap, people will take it to mean just one thing:

Keir Starmer – and his “changed” Labour Party – want to force hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. Now, why would they do that?

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