PRESSURE piled on Labour to drop the two-child benefit cap today after Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was her “purpose” to ensure no child grows up in poverty.

Speaking at her party’s conference, she announced that breakfast clubs will roll out from next April.

She pledged to boost “life chances for children and work choices for parents” and said the first of 3,000 new school-based nurseries will open from next year.