Tory: Cuts give poor ‘more incentive to breed’

A TORY peer criticised the Government’s child benefit cuts yesterday — saying they gave the poor more incentive to have children than the better-off.

Former party vice-chair Howard Flight told London’s Evening Standard that taking the benefit away from top taxpayers would mean they were “discouraged from breeding”.

“But for those on benefits, there is every incentive. Well, that’s not very sensible,” he told the newspaper.