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 government would keep the controversial two-child benefits cap despite mounting pressure from his MPs to commit to scrapping a policy that has been blamed for pushing families into poverty.
The Labour leader said the party was “not changing that policy” even though the shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, described the cap as “heinous” and suggested that it had made child poverty worse in an interview last month.
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