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Daniel Kebede speaking at the Socialist Campaign rally, September 24, 2024
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TRADE unions must become the most effective opposition if Labour keeps attacking the poorest, National Education Union leader Daniel Kebede said on Tuesday night.
Addressing a standing-room-only Socialist Campaign Group-Labour Assembly Against Austerity fringe meeting, Mr Kebede said Labour needed to reverse its decision to means-test the winter fuel allowance and roll out free school meals for all.
Lifting the two-child benefit cap was a “no-brainer” that would lift 300,000 children out of poverty at a stroke, he said. “What sort of government continues that [cap]? It’s absolutely abhorrent.”
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