Tories pledge to scrap £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge'
Party leader Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC that she wants to see "people who work harder" not getting punished for doing so.
The Conservative Party has pledged to abolish the £100,000 childcare threshold that currently prevents higher-income parents from accessing government-funded or tax-free childcare in England. Leader Kemi Badenoch argued that the policy should not punish people for working hard and that the move would boost economic growth by removing a perceived family-related unfairness in the tax system.
Currently, families where no earner exceeds £100,000 can access the childcare scheme, but with the change, parents would no longer lose support even if one parent earns above that level. The policy aims to encourage people to work more and is funded by cutting positions in executive non-departmental public bodies, with an estimated saving of £1.6bn by 2029-30.
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