Labour MPs ‘seething’ over Starmer’s child benefit stance, says Corbyn

Corbyn said that ‘even the Blair government, which Keir Starmer often quotes, did do a great deal to lift children out of poverty’. Photograph: Ben Birchall/Jacob King/PA

Labour MPs are “seething with anger” about Keir Starmer’s refusal to pledge to scrap the two-child benefit cap, according to Jeremy Corbyn.

As Starmer continued to resist pressure from some of his party’s own MPs and others, his predecessor as Labour leader, who now sits as an independent, waded into the row on Tuesday by saying he had spoken to “quite a lot of Labour MPs” about the controversy.