with echoes from the new labour era. note from keir starmer to scrapping a totemic policy from the cameron era, the camp which stops parents claiming benefits for more than two children de cap. a changed tune when starmer was standing for the labour leadership as he talked about scrapping this. we labour leadership as he talked about scrapping thie labour leadership as he talked about scrapping this- scrapping this. we said over and over again scrapping this. we said over and over again that scrapping this. we said over and over again that our scrapping this. we said over and over again that our approach - scrapping this. we said over and over again that our approach to l over again that our approach to mothers would be to help them to work so they could be better off than they could ever be on benefit. does the new starmer approach sound familiar? amid stern faces, harriet harman could single parent benefits for new claimants in 1997, as the blair government stuck to tory sp