Scrapping two-child benefit cap may be harder after welfare U-turn, minister says

Bridget Phillipson told BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the government was still committed to tackling child poverty. Photograph: Jeff Overs/PA

Downing Street’s U-turn on changes to welfare last week will make it harder to implement other policies such as potentially scrapping the two-child benefit cap, Bridget Phillipson has said.

The education minister said Labour was still committed to tackling child poverty but, when asked whether the backbench rebellion that resulted in about £5bn of annual savings on welfare being scrapped had diminished the chances of the cap being removed, she said it would have an impact.