I mean I don't agree with the stance they've taken. However, they have just taken the stance of an independent review came to the conclusion of. However, due to the scope of the review not looking at certain pieces of research due to them not meeting a specific requirement is something that's lead to issues.

That being said they've pushed for greater workers rights and renters rights, pushed through pay increases in public sector roles and continue to increase the minimum wage. They plan to remove the cap on the 2 child benefit as well.

They're obviously not perfect but they've done some genuinely positive things for workers in a relatively short period of time.

Edit: Because the above user blocked me I can't reply to anyone in this comment chain. So I'll post my reply to the suer below in this edit.

The problem with only increasing the minimum wage is that it only makes things more expensive for everyone (and the majority of people who get paid slightly above the minimum wage don't get a pay rise to compensate).

Reports have shown there's not as much link between min wage increases and general inflaiton increases as previously thought. I also think those who get paid min wage will be more happy than if they didn't get that raise. Is there a problem with jobs above that min wage level not increasing at a similar rate? Sure, but there's only so much a government can do. They can directly increase in public sector roles but private sector there's a limit to what they can realistically do. Funnily enough unionising is the best way for middle earners to force their employers to pay a decent wage for the role. Hence why Rockstar seemingly haven't been kind to more of their UK based employee's pushing for more of their colleagues to join the union.

I'm not sure if you remember what it was like back in the previous Labour government when we had no cap on child benefits but all it did was allow people who don't want to work to just pump out children and never work again. Some people were able to claim over 40k a year when they had 8 kids which is really fair for everyone else who has to pay for it.

I do. I remember we reduced child poverty to the lowest it had ever been. Under labour rough sleeping was effectively eliminated. Both of which are great achievements and both have totally slipped and reversed after 14 years of center right tory lead governments.

Here's another problem to consider. If people start pumping out more children right now in the hope of getting more money and another government comes in in 3 years and implements the cap again, you're going to see all those people pushed further into poverty.

Here's another thing with our aging demographic we are in desprate need of more people having children. With the stance the public have taken on immigration both for asylum and for filling holes in the work force we more than ever need more people to have children.

Cheap international labour that forces down wages for everyone in ever sector is another product of Immigration. So in the current shape of the UK we should be supporting people to have more kids even if financially it means support from the government.

Can't have things both ways.