Labour MPs attack Starmer’s commitment to keep Tories’ two-child benefit limit

Campaigners react on policy that has been criticised as one of the biggest drivers of child poverty

Labour MPs and anti-poverty campaigners have attacked Keir Starmer's commitment to keep the Conservatives' controversial two-child benefit limit.

Starmer told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg show that Labour was not changing that policy", which has been widely criticised as unfair, cruel, ineffective on its own terms, and one of the biggest drivers of child poverty.