Education unions urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

A letter to the prime minister on the eve of the Labour conference warns of critical need' to abandon the policy

Teaching unions have written to the prime minister asking him to scrap the two-child benefit cap ahead of Labour's annual conference, which begins in Liverpool on Sunday.

In a letter to Keir Starmer, the unions described the policy as cruel" and said it must be fully abandoned as part of the government's delayed child poverty strategy, expected to be published before Christmas.