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Welby condemns two-child benefit cap and urges parties to scrap ‘cruel’ policy

JUSTIN WELBY has condemned the two-child benefit cap as cruel as he urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to commit to scrapping it.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said the limit was “neither moral nor necessary” and it “falls short of our values as a society.”

Mr Sunak has committed to keep the policy if the Tories remain in power after the general election; Sir Keir has so far resisted calls to scrap it despite claiming ending child poverty is central to his plans for government.

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