MPs resoundingly vote to scrap two-child benefit cap

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"Legislation to scrap the controversial two-child limit has cleared its initial parliamentary stage, moving the policy on step closer to abolition. Introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, the policy restricts child tax credit and Universal Credit (UC) to the first two children. During a Commons debate, it was branded a "political exercise in division between the deserving and undeserving poor.""

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