Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits

Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty would make Dickens furious' and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it

Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party's former leader Neil Kinnock has urged.

Rising levels of poverty would make Charles Dickens furious", Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror, in which he also called on ministers to introduce a wealth tax.