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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kate Devlin and Alexander Butler

Wes Streeting defends Archbishop of Canterbury’s attack on two-child benefit cap – ‘literally his job’

PA Wire

Wes Streeting has defended the Archbishop of Canterbury after he slammed the two-child benefit cap as “cruel” and urged Sir Keir Starmer to scrap it.

Justin Welby said the limit, which restricts child benefit entitlement to two children per household, was neither “moral nor necessary” and it fell short of “our values as a society”.

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