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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer. The two-child benefit cap affects 1.6 million children, according to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Keir Starmer has come under further pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit after another of his backbench MPs described the policy as “heinous”.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield said the cap, which came into effect under then-chancellor George Osborne in 2017, was “sinister and overtly sexist” and had been the main reason driving her to stand for parliament.

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