PRESSURE piled on Labour to scrap the government’s cruel “sibling penalty” today as campaigners warned it’s set to push the majority of large families below the poverty line by the end of this parliament.

The two-child benefit limit, introduced in 2017, stops parents from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for more than two children. 

But figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show 1.6 million children are now affected by the policy, rising by 100,000 in a year.