THE new Labour government must match the Scottish Child Payment across Britain to fight poverty, the SNP demanded today.

A BBC investigation compared the plight of families living with poverty north and south of the border, concluding the two-child cap “affects families across the UK, but the impact of the policy has been somewhat reduced in Scotland due to the Scottish Child Payment."

The SNP seized on the report to call for the £26.70 per child payment, estimated to have kept 100,000 children in Scotland out of poverty, to be rolled out UK-wide.