With the government set to face challenges to the King's Speech next week, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs to back amendments on repealing the child benefit cap, ending arms sales to Israel, and for public ownership of water.
Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said:
With the Tories swept from power, Labour can and should take the opportunity to tear down their legacy of child poverty and privatisation, and to end British complicity in the slaughter in Gaza.
The King’s Speech contains a number of welcome policies, including on workers’ rights, but trade unions would like it to go further in a number of areas. Freshly elected MPs have a democratic mandate from their constituents and must be free to fight for their interests.
The Fire Brigades Union urges MPs to back amendments to the King’s Speech that seek to scrap the two-child limit on benefits, end arms sales to Israel, bring water into public ownership, and which seek to overturn the misery inflicted by Tory rule.”
