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Mothers challenge government over two-child benefit cap

Two mothers are challenging the government in court over the Universal Credit (UC) two-child benefit policy. That two-child cap prevents…

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MPs to vote on two-child benefit cap

MPs are to vote on whether they support scrapping the two-child benefit cap, as the government faces growing pressure to…

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Rachel Reeves resists calls to lift two-child benefit cap

1 hour ago By Paul Seddon, Political reporter We can’t promise to lift two-child benefit cap, says Reeves The chancellor has said…

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SNP tables amendment to scrap two-child benefit cap

Starmer challenged by SNP on two-child benefit cap The SNP has tabled an amendment to the King’s Speech calling for…

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SNP join push to scrap two-child benefit cap

The SNP has announced plans to join Labour rebels in trying to force the government to scrap the two-child benefit…

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Pressure growing to scrap two-child benefit limit

2 hours ago By Michael Buchanan, Social affairs correspondent, BBC News • Joe Pike, Political correspondent, BBC News Getty Images The government is facing growing…

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Tories and Labour pressed on two-child benefit cap in TV debate

2 hours ago By Mark Palmer, BBC Wales News • Adrian Browne, Political reporter, BBC Wales News BBC Rhun ap Iorwerth, Jane Dodds, Vaughan Gething,…

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Starmer warns of ‘difficult choices’ over NHS, tuition fees and two-child benefit cap – UK politics live | Politics

Good morning. Keir Starmer has been giving interviews this morning, including on the Today programme. Labour is promising “change” but…

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Archbishop of Canterbury urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap | Poverty

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has issued an impassioned plea to the government and Keir Starmer’s Labour party to…

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The two-child benefit cap in the UK is unfair and doesn’t work | Bishop of Leicester

In Leicester, where I live and work as bishop, two in five children now live in poverty. That’s 12 pupils…

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