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Rebecca McCurdy

Starmer: Labour will assess ‘fairness’ of benefit cap and rape clause

PA Wire

Labour will assess the fairness of policies like the two-child benefit limit amid a backlash over a failure to scrap the cap, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The Labour leader has rebuffed suggestions of a clash with Scottish party members who oppose the benefit cap, which blocks applicants from claiming universal credit or child tax credits for a third child.

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