Only the total abolition of the two-child limit is acceptable, former prime minister Gordon Brown said as he branded the policy’s justification as a way to deal with the “feckless” something that was “completely wrong”.
The former Labour leader said a lie had been peddled that “workshy” parents claiming the benefit were having children just to qualify for it and called for it to be “banished from the statute book of our country as soon as possible”.
