Labour's internal debate centers around its local election losses, particularly regarding changes to pensioners' winter fuel allowance and incapacity benefit. The decision to delay the child poverty review publication is strategically timed for autumn, aimed at consulting comprehensively and addressing funding for proposed changes. The review's necessary financial aspects, only possible within a budget context, underscore the party's commitment to tackling child poverty, which has affected millions under Tory austerity. This proactive approach aims to restore Labour's reputation for fairness and deliver on promises to reduce child dependency on emergency food services.
Only a budget in which, for example, a gambling or a banking levy can be announced, can generate the more than 3bn that would cover the estimated cost of abolishing the two-child cap and take nearly half a million children out of poverty.
By investing in children, we will affirm our moral purpose and deliver the promised decade of national renewal.
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