SNP’s Kirsten Oswald says PM should scrap policies, including the controversial ‘rape clause’, to lift 500,000 out of poverty
Photograph: Islandstock/AlamyPhotograph: Islandstock/AlamyRishi Sunak has been urged to drop “unspeakably cruel” policies in order to lift half a million people out of poverty.
It applies to additional children born after 6 April 2017, however exemptions apply for those who had children in a multiple birth or children conceived due to rape or coercion. Latest statistics show there are around 787,000 households in the UK claiming benefits with three or more children. Oswald, who is her party’s women and equalities spokeswoman, said: “The new prime minister has made much of his willingness to break with his predecessors and disown key policies which were quite clearly having a disastrous impact, and given the shameful record of successive Tory prime ministers on tackling child poverty, he must be prepared to do so again in 2023.
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