"That's why I have been fighting for changes that will make a difference to working families. Such as reviving Sure Start for a new generation, funding childcare from nine months old, rolling out free breakfast clubs, expanding free school meals for half a million more children and capping the branded items schools can require. Together these changes save working-class families thousands of pounds."
"Each has deepened inequalities in class, region, education and opportunity. Addressing this is what this Labour government is about. We have an economy that serves the few, not the many a trickle-down model that needs rewiring. I want to see a much stronger sense that tackling economic inequality and fairness unites everything we do. That's one of the reasons I strongly support lifting the two-child benefit cap at the forthcoming budget, looking at Gordon Brown's measures on gambling taxes to pay for it."
A background of council housing, lack of heating and damp shaped a commitment to policies benefiting working-family households. Proposed measures include reviving Sure Start, funding childcare from nine months, rolling out free breakfast clubs, expanding free school meals for 500,000 more children, and capping branded items schools require. Those measures are presented as delivering thousands of pounds in savings for working-class families. The two-child benefit cap is under review alongside wider child-poverty work. A broader economic agenda seeks to rewire a trickle-down model, prioritise economic equality and fairness, and fund changes through measures such as gambling taxes.
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