PRESSURE is growing on Sir Keir Starmer to commit to scrapping the two-child limit under a Labour government amid ongoing criticism of its recent green pledge U-turn.

The SNP welcomed former Labour leader Gordon Brown’s recent call that it is “the right thing to do,” urging the current leadership to listen to him and anti-child-poverty organisations to scrap the Tory policy.

More than 87,000 children in Scotland are affected by the cap, the SNP said, echoing warnings that the policy is one of the biggest drivers of child poverty.