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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James

Welsh First Minister calls for ‘damaging’ two-child benefit cap to be scrapped

Sir Keir Starmer is facing further pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap, after Wales’ First Minister argued it is “damaging” for families.

Tensions between the Prime Minister and the Welsh Labour leader have appeared to be brewing over recent weeks, with Baroness Eluned Morgan calling for winter fuel allowance to be restored for the “majority of pensioners” and for a change of plan on proposed welfare cuts.

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