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Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Abolishing two-child benefit cap is ‘on the table’, says Labour’s Phillipson

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is campaigning for Labour’s deputy leadership (Owen Humphreys/PA) - (PA Wire)

Abolishing the “spiteful” two-child benefit cap is “on the table”, Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson has said.

In an interview with The Guardian, the Education Secretary said she was “thinking every day about how to turn the tide on child poverty” due to her own experiences growing up.

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