Time for more Sarah Teather hypocrisy. We all know that Nick Clegg floated the idea of means testing child benefit before back tracking subsequently, but what of Brent Central MP Sarah Teather? Well, back in 2008, she was a determined campaigner on child poverty. She was so incensed by Labour's shortcomings that she promised that the Liberal Democrats would be "increasing child benefit by five pounds for the first child making all families 250 pounds a year better off."
Fast forward to today, and she is a minister in a Tory led government that has just frozen child benefit for those families that Sarah Teather previously promised were going to be 250 pounds a year better off.
It is one thing to trade your principles for power, but Sarah Teather seems to have handed them in for impotence in office.
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