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Former Tory leader says removing two-child benefit cap ‘worth looking at’
Iain Duncan Smith introducing then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of his speech in central London on welfare reform, April 19, 2024

TORY grandee Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said removing the two-child benefit cap was “certainly worth looking at.”

But his comments come despite the former Tory leader’s own eagerness to implement the controversial policy as work and pensions secretary between 2010 and 2016.

Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, he told the Mirror: “It’s a debate that needs to go on. I said I wouldn’t necessarily be against changing it.

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