Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has backed Anas Sarwar’s calls for a Labour government to abolish the two-child benefit cap.
“The two-child policy is causing real hardship – it is driving child poverty and homelessness. I understand where Keir is coming from because it’s not just the two-child cap, you have the benefits cap overall, the two-child policy and the freeze on local housing allowance and it is the effect of all these things together that is really brutal and appalling.
However, Burnham revealed he is more interested in working directly with the Scottish Government to create jobs in the renewable energy and insulation retrofitting industries. “While we obfuscate and delay on developing the renewable energy industries of the future, other countries are already moving in to that space and there is an increasing danger we miss out. Already Danish offshore wind firms are taking installations so the economic opportunity shrinks all the time.
When asked if he would serve in a Starmer government, Burnham added: “I’ve got a different role to play and that’s why I’m here. We’ve hit a point where the country is fundamentally broken.
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