More than a third of children in Norwich South live in poverty. Scrapping the cruel and unjust two-child benefit cap would help lift 300,000 children across the country out of poverty.
Yet both of Norwich’s Labour MPs have voted to keep this policy. While Green MPs voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap and support the most vulnerable, Norwich South MP Clive Lewis and Norwich North MP Alice MacDonald voted to keep the cap.
Clive Lewis and Alice MacDonald didn’t have to do this. Seven Labour MPs supported scrapping the two-child benefit cap, voting with their consciences. Yet Norwich’s Labour MPs chose to toe the party line rather than doing the right thing.
Norwich deserves better. We cannot afford to continue letting children live in poverty when the Government has the means to end it.
Tell Norwich’s Labour MPs Alice MacDonald and Clive Lewis – we will not stand for children going hungry. Alice MacDonald has said “I will always listen to constituents and make the case, if and when necessary, if I think my party hasn’t got something right.”.Urge to them to change their mind and vote against the two-child benefit cap. Sign our petition here.