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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Families in London's East End being plunged into deeper poverty by two-child benefit cap, warns MP

Labour MPs are planning a fresh push at the autumn Budget to axe the two-child benefit limit after Sir Keir Starmer suspended seven backbenchers who rebelled against the Government on the issue.

Two London MPs, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Apsana Begum, were among the Labour backbenchers who voted for a Scottish National Party motion, during a King’s Speech debate, to scrap the benefits restriction.

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