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Durham Cathedral
THE TORIES’ two-child benefit cap will condemn an extra 200,000 youngsters to poverty and should be scrapped, religious leaders told the government today.
Sixty Church of England bishops and senior figures from other Christian, Jewish and Muslim bodies published an open letter on the first anniversary of the government imposing its widely criticised benefits cap on families with more than two children.
They said the two-child limit “conveys the regrettable message that some children matter less than others, depending on their place in the sibling birth order.”
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
