Pressure grows on Rachel Reeves to end two-child benefit cap in next budget

The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, last July. She is expected to raise taxes and cut public spending in her October budget. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Rachel Reeves is coming under renewed pressure to end the two-child benefit limit in October’s budget, after the Guardian revealed the chancellor is preparing to keep it in place.

MPs and anti-poverty campaigners are warning that any delay in scrapping the policy will keep hundreds of thousands of children in poverty, with just weeks until Reeves unveils her first major fiscal package.