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- Labour's Financial Secretary Stephen Timms says removing the two-child limit in universal credit could lift 450,000 children out of poverty.
- He criticized past Conservative policies that cut benefits and increased child poverty to 4.5 million.
- Labour aims to reverse punitive measures and focus on support for job seekers while Timms calls for a narrative showing the benefits of a well-designed system to change public attitudes.
