Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

Keir Starmer under pressure to scrap limit as more than dozen MPs thought to support king's speech amendment

Keir Starmer has come under further pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit after another of his backbench MPs described the policy as heinous".

Writing in The Sunday Times, Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield said the cap, which came into effect under then-chancellor George Osborne in 2017, was sinister and overtly sexist" and had been the main reason driving her to stand for parliament.