https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-labour-starmer-selling-party-tory-donors-pulling-strings
Labour policy is shifting ever further rightwards. That won’t and can’t change as long as only tainted City money is filling the party’s empty coffers
What has happened to Britain’s opposition Labour Party under Keir Starmer? The familiar adage “follow the money” helps make sense of the party’s policy shifts ever further rightwards.
Labour plumbed new depths earlier this month when it conceded that, in power, it would maintain the government’s cap on child benefit, restricting financial help to the first two children in a family.
The cap, one of the Conservatives’ most socially regressive measures, was denounced as “heinous” and “obscene” by shadow cabinet ministers after it was introduced. Even Starmer called it “punitive” when he was trying to win over Labour members in the 2020 leadership vote.
Hundreds of thousands of children and their families are reported to have been driven below the breadline since the benefit cap came into effect in 2017.
No other country in the world has a similar policy. But in Britain, punishing children is now a bipartisan issue.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-labour-starmer-selling-party-tory-donors-pulling-strings