Even millionaires should be entitled to child benefit [View All]

Even millionaires should be entitled to child benefit, Ed Miliband has said, as he claimed people earning £45,000 still needed help from the state.

Asked whether he would condone handing out Government cash to the super-rich, the new Labour leader said he was against any move towards underminining the universal principal.

"I'm in favour of that yes, and I'm in favour of it because it's a cornerstone of our system to have universal benefits, and frankly there aren't that many millionaires in this country," he told BBC1's The Politics Show.

"Families on £45,000 need child benefit in my view and it's a way that society recognises the costs of having kids."

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What a load of shite