 Writing about the benefit cap in 2013, George Eaton argued in the "New Statesman" magazine that "the cap is less a serious act of policy than a political weapon designed to trap Labour on the wrong side of the argument".Eaton cited a YouGov poll published earlier that year, which found that 79% of people, including 71% of Labour voters, supported the benefit cap, while 12% opposed it.In the same year "The Guardian" newspaper argued that, because the benefit cap applied regardless of family size, larger families were likely to be disproportionately affected.