Labour's welfare chief has given a clear hint the party will scrap the Tories' "heinous" two-child benefit cap as he lashed out at Britain's "threadbare" safety net.
The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the policy devised by austerity Chancellor George Osborne is "absolutely keeping children in poverty".
First introduced in 2017 it restricts benefits support to the first two children and has been repeatedly been blamed for increasing poverty and hardship.
