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Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Two-child benefit cap a ‘failed social experiment’ that had to go, PM says

Sir Keir Starmer described the cap as a ‘failed social experiment’ (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned the two-child benefit cap as a “failed social experiment” after Rachel Reeves announced the abolition of the limit in her tax-raising Budget.

The Prime Minister argued the move, which is set to cost £3 billion by the end of the Parliament, would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and serve as “an investment in Britain’s future”.

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