{"id":611222,"date":"2025-12-04T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611222\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:05:13","slug":"prime-minister-to-visit-glasgow-today-to-discuss-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611222\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister to visit Glasgow today to discuss poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Starmer will meet families after the announcement of the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap on Universal Credit and Tax Credits claims from April.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is expected the move will benefit almost 100,000 children in more than 25,000 low-income families in Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking ahead of his visit, Starmer said: \u201cMy government has always placed Scotland at the heart of every decision it makes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\u201cThat is what I promised and that is what I am delivering, because Scots are in my mind\u2019s eye every single time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\u201cWhen I see over 200,000 children in poverty in Scotland, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/uk-government\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Government<\/a> has the means to change that course, we did.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201c27,000 families with kids with more food on the table than they had\u00a0before.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere will be those who want yet more political rows or distractions \u2013 not us.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThat doesn\u2019t change people\u2019s lives, it delays change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer will meet families after the announcement of the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap on Universal Credit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-611222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115660267598468572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}