Where Their Mouths Are?

Following the King’s Speech on 17 July, an amendment to the Humble Address should call for legislation to tax unearned income at the same rate as earnings, as was the case under Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson, in order to abolish the two-child benefit cap, restore the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit (two in five claimants of which are in work), and extend that uplift to disability benefits.

Across six parties, plus five Left Independents, there are at least 97 MPs who ought to sign that amendment. Moreover, Nigel Farage has expressed himself in favour of lifting the cap. Since he now leads five MPs, that takes the total to 102. Suella Braverman is of the same view, and ought to bring with her any MPs who supported her candidacy for Leader of the Conservative Party.