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Labour has indicated that it will take a tough approach to social security.
Shadow ministers have remained cautious and vague around their plans.
Shadow MPs have spoken about wanting the benefits system to be more compassionate towards disabled people.
It is unclear whether Labour would scrap the Tory plans for disability benefits reforms.
Keir Starmer promised to scrap the two -child limit in his bid for leader but has since changed his mind.
Labour has pledged to “review’s universal credit so that it “makes work pay and tackles poverty” It has said it wants to end dependence on food banks, which it calls a “moral scar on our society”.
Number of pensioners living in relative poverty fell by over a million from 1997/98 to 2009/10 .
Child poverty also fell by more than two million in this time period.
Welfare spending was key to this, with 18bn annual increase in benefits for families with children and 11bn for pensioners between 1997 and 2010 .
Keir Starmer has implied he’ll take a different approach to previous Labour leaders.
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