Tories: Lifting two-child benefit cap is the ‘wrong choice’

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Responding to the government’s Budget Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride says “when it comes to spending money that’s taken from hard-working taxpayers on the benefits system, we think that is the wrong choice”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think with the triple lock we've always stood by our pensioners. We

00:04recognize that under the last Labour government we had the fourth largest

00:07pensioner, highest level of pensioner poverty in Europe and we don't want to

00:10see that repeated. But when it comes to spending money that's taken from

00:14hard-working taxpayers on the benefit system we think that that is the wrong

00:18choice and we think that when it comes to decisions to have a large family that

00:23those that are on benefit should also take the kind of decisions around

00:27whether they can afford it or not just as hard-working taxpayers do.

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