00:00If we don't increase the benefits available to children and to families with children,
00:06then there's nothing that will happen in other changes that will reduce these numbers quickly.
00:11Is it a political choice though to balance the books by benefit cuts?
00:16The government can make a choice.
00:18Three billion it would cost to take half a million children out of poverty.
00:22Three billion could be raised by fair taxation of the gambling industry.
00:26So this is by scrapping the two-child benefit cap?
00:29That would be the quickest way and the most cost-effective way of getting children out of poverty.
00:34Keir Starmer has previously said that the financial resources just aren't there to scrap the cap
00:39and he's actually on the right of reform and the Conservatives when it comes to this policy
00:45because they have both said that they would scrap the cap.
00:48So do you think that Labour has actually lost its connection with working class voters?
00:53It's lost its identity?
00:54No, what the government has done since it came in is it's raised the minimum wage
00:59and that's been very, very important.
01:02When it comes to schools, they've introduced the breakfast clubs.
01:04They're expanding education and child care.
01:07All these things are actually being done
01:08and I think we've got to give them credit in difficult situations for doing this.
01:12But they should pay attention to this.
01:14You have more money!
01:19You don't pay attention to this.
01:20You don't pay attention to this.
01:22If you don't pay attention to this, you can go to the microphone.
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