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The two-child benefit cap shames our country – it’s time to end it
Ending the cap would immediately lift some 250,000 children out of poverty. For Labour not to make ending it a policy is madness, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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BRITAIN is a country shamed by the poverty of its children — and it’s a scandal that there is no urgent political will or interest in changing one of the main drivers of this catastrophe.

Some 4.2 million of our children are living in poverty — one in three of our kids — with almost three million of them in “deep” poverty, whose families earn less than half of the median income.

This number, in the midst of an induced cost-of-living emergency and soaring interest rates, is only going in one direction, yet there seems little parliamentary interest in stopping the rise.

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