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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Lynch

Lord Kinnock urges Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap with ‘Robin Hood economics’

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has urged ministers to scrap the two-child limit on benefits (Jane Barlow/PA) -

Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has said.

Rising levels of poverty “would make Charles Dickens furious”, Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror, in which he urged ministers to introduce a wealth tax.

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