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Labour Pushes to Abolish Two-Child Cap, Combat Poverty
9/30/2025
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- Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, at Labour conference, prioritizes scrapping the two-child cap.
- Abolishing cap could lift 350,000 children and reduce poverty for 700,000.
- Nicola Grant of the Workers Party urged elimination of the cap.
- Labour MPs sent a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer urging removal in the upcoming budget.
- Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledges fiscal responsibility; the Conservative 2017 cap.
