While Tory MPs have hit out at the Archbishop of Canterbury for decrying the policy, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting welcomed his comments. Where do …
New data shows families with disabled children, and single parents with offspring under the age of three facing financial hardship Keir Starmer is facing new …
Keir Starmer will face discontent from unions and MPs at the National Policy Forum in Nottingham Keir Starmer faces battles over the two-child benefit cap …
Shadow chancellor says an incoming Labour government could not afford to axe benefit cap because of ‘dire economic inheritance’ In her Today interview Rachel Reeves …
Commitment to keep controversial policy has opened splits ahead of national party meeting Keir Starmer’s decision not to scrap the two-child benefit cap if Labour …
Campaigners react on policy that has been criticised as one of the biggest drivers of child poverty Labour MPs and anti-poverty campaigners have attacked Keir …
Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, says party could only promise things it can afford as report says benefit caps cause ‘extreme hardship’ Supermarket bosses will …
Leader says party in power will stick with Tory policy seen as driving low-income families into deeper poverty Keir Starmer has confirmed that a Labour …
Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children Labour has come under fresh pressure to vow to scrap the …
Left shifts tactics to ‘go with the grain’ of Keir Starmer’s project Labour will come under pressure to back abolishing the two-child limit on benefits, …
Exclusive: Policy misunderstands realities of caring roles and has left hundreds of thousands of families in poverty, study finds The UK’s controversial two-child benefit limit, …
SNP’s Kirsten Oswald says PM should scrap policies, including the controversial ‘rape clause’, to lift 500,000 out of poverty Rishi Sunak has been urged to …
Exclusive: research shows benefits cut has barely changed fertility rates and pushed thousands of British families deeper into poverty It was one of the Conservatives’ …