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Tories will keep two-child benefit limit, PM confirms

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Charities have called for the cap to be abolished amid record levels of child poverty.

The Conservatives will keep the two-child benefit cap if they win the next election, the Prime Minister has said.

The commitment follows Mr Sunak’s speech on Friday in which he set out reforms of the welfare system to reduce the number of people receiving benefits and bring spending down. In his Sun On Sunday article, the Prime Minister said: “There is nothing compassionate about consigning people who could work to a life trapped on benefits.Campaigners have criticised Mr Sunak for using “hostile rhetoric” and launching a “full-on assault on disabled people” with his plans for welfare.

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap features among the campaign’s demands, a policy supported by the current children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza.

 

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