Education unions urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

Keir Starmer on his way to Sunday’s Labour party conference in Liverpool. Education unions have written to ask him to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Teaching unions have written to the prime minister asking him to scrap the two-child benefit cap ahead of Labour’s annual conference, which begins in Liverpool on Sunday.

In a letter to Keir Starmer, the unions described the policy as “cruel” and said it must be fully abandoned as part of the government’s delayed child poverty strategy, expected to be published before Christmas.