"Backbenchers rallied round the prime minister and chancellor on Wednesday afternoon after Keir Starmer hailed the measures being announced as a Labour budget with Labour values. The decision to entirely scrap the two-child limit, which prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or universal credit for more than two children, was publicly celebrated by dozens of Labour MPs who have been publicly and privately pushing for the measure."
"In a joint statement Helen Hayes and Debbie Abrahams, the chairs of the education and work and pensions select committees, said the move would immediately lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and stop even more being drawn into it. Antonia Bance, Labour MP for Tipton and Wednesbury and former senior union official, said on Bluesky that she had worked to end the two-child limit ever since the day I was elected and that ministers had acted to give every child the best start in life."
Rachel Reeves abolished the two-child benefit cap and unveiled progressive measures including a mansion tax. The two-child limit had prevented parents from claiming child tax credit or universal credit for more than two children. The abolition is estimated to cost £3bn by the end of the parliament. Dozens of Labour MPs publicly supported the change, and select committee chairs said the move would immediately lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and prevent more entering it. Several Labour MPs praised the policy as improving children’s prospects, while party leaders sought to consolidate unity around the budget.
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