Pressure grows on Rachel Reeves to end two-child benefit cap in next budget

Campaigners are warning the chancellor that any delay will keep hundreds of thousands of children in poverty

Rachel Reeves is coming under renewed pressure to end the two-child benefit cap at next month's budget, after the Guardian revealed the chancellor is preparing to keep it in place.

MPs and anti-poverty campaigners are warning that any delay in scrapping the cap will keep hundreds of thousands of children in poverty, with just weeks until Reeves unveils her first major fiscal package.