内容摘要：Slough Borough Council leaders voted earlier this year to cut council tax discounts for families on low incomes.

Slough Borough Council leaders voted earlier this year to cut council tax discounts for families on low incomes.

That's important to Aneila who says she wants to show "you can wear a hijab, be involved in fitness and still pursue your dreams"."I'm getting messages from girls as young as 12 telling me that I'm the reason they're taking gymnastics again and that they feel that they can now be involved in sport."

And it's not just young girls who've been inspired by Aneila."Since being on Gladiators, I've received messages from women in their 40s who say if there was a visible Muslim woman wearing a headscarf when they were younger, their whole journey with fitness would have been different," she says.And she hopes her journey on Gladiators will encourage her own children to feel comfortable being themselves too.

"My daughter was getting older and I wanted to be a visible Muslim role model for her," she says."I have used my children to be my inspiration. It's because of them I wanted to wear a headscarf."

Aneila says the reaction she's had since first appearing on Gladiators helped her realise "we can push the barriers out, break any stereotypes".

"The hijab is not a limitation."In a sign of the depth of feeling within the party on the issue, fellow backbencher Rosie Duffield has described the cap as amounting to "social cleansing".

, she added that the "sinister" policy was "an attack on women's right to choose how many children they have".Save the Children, a charity, has estimated that scrapping the cap would take half a million children out of relative poverty.

It argues that government plans for an anti-poverty strategy will not be "credible" unless the cap is dropped at the autumn Budget.The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank