Nigel Farage has been causing a stir by calling for the two-child benefit cap to be scrapped, a move that might sound like a push for fairness, but critics are quick to point out it was his party that helped bring it in to begin with.
The policy, introduced in 2017 under the Conservatives, limits child-related benefits to the first two children in a family. Any additional kids? No extra financial support. It’s been widely criticized for plunging hundreds of thousands of children into poverty, and now pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Keir Starmer from within his party to get rid of it altogether.
