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Third child benefits imbecilic

Sir, In all my years I have not seen any government policy as disgusting and disgraceful as this Tory regime’s intention to cut benefits to poor families or mothers with a third child unless it can be proved that the third child was conceived as a result of rape. Words escape me.

I do not know how any woman can vote Tory in the face of this abomination.

And is the father of this child, if identified as such, then taken to court and charged?

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