Sentences with phrase «universality of child benefit»

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Ed Miliband appoints Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor — and Johnson tells Channel 4 News that Labour will oppose changes to child benefit and the erosion of «the precious principle of universality».

David Cameron's pledges in the election, No. 10 feels, rule out the full - scale assault on the principle of universality that the Lib Dems argued for, such as means testing benefits like child benefit to cut them back for better off families.