Minister admits UK ‘can’t carry on’ with poverty levels for large families amid calls to scrap two child benefit cap
The government is under growing pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
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PM vows to tackle child poverty with ‘vigour’ amid unease over two-child cap
Seven Labour MPs were stripped of the whip for backing an SNP motion to axe the welfare limit.
‘At least one in four children in poverty in two-thirds of constituencies’
Child poverty rates strongly correlated with the percentage of children affected by the two-child limit in that local area, researchers said.
Sunak and Starmer urged to set out plans to tackle poverty in first TV debate
Current poverty levels are ‘a stain on the moral conscience of our nation’, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said.
Gordon Brown calling for Government drive to tackle child poverty
The former prime minister has published a paper setting out possible emergency measures to tackle the issue.
Gordon Brown calls for new partnership to tackle poverty
There is no better time than an election year to rediscover our moral compass, says the former prime minister.
Flag warriors urged to watch this 2-minute assessment of UK poverty levels
This, from Armando Iannucci, demonstrates what a real scandal looks like.
Armando Iannucci derides Tory policies which ‘are putting more people into poverty’
The Thick Of It creator was speaking on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme.
Record number of children in poverty branded ‘an outrage’
The latest figure is the highest since comparable records for the UK began in 2002/03.