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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits

Neil Kinnock congratulates Keir Starmer after Labour’s 2024 general election victory
Neil Kinnock, here congratulating Keir Starmer after Labour’s 2024 general election victory, joined Gordon Brown in opposing the two-child limit and benefit cap. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau

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

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

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