Two-child benefit cap comes to an end with aim of lifting 450,000 out of poverty

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on the campaign trail for the local elections (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

The two-child cap on benefits officially ends on Monday, a move Sir Keir Starmer said showed his Government was “on the side of the British people”.

An estimated 450,000 children will be lifted out of poverty as a result of the two-child benefit cap being scrapped by the Government.