"Bridget Phillipson is pushing the prime minister and chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap entirely in next month's budget, with the education secretary telling the Guardian the evidence is clear that it needs to be removed. Phillipson, who is finalising a report to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves on child poverty, said abolishing the cap was the most cost effective way to make lives better for young disadvantaged people."
"meaning Reeves is now under more pressure than ever to find the money to abolish the cap. Phillipson told the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast: I've been clear in public and in conversations with colleagues about what the evidence tells us and what needs to happen. Every year that passes, because of the two-child limit, more children move into poverty and the evidence is there for all to see."
Bridget Phillipson is urging the prime minister and chancellor to remove the two-child benefit cap entirely in next month's budget. Phillipson is finalising a report to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves on child poverty and describes abolishing the cap as the most cost-effective way to improve lives for disadvantaged young people. Reeves is exploring a tapered alternative that would raise the cap to three or four children rather than remove it. Officials warn the chancellor will face difficulty contradicting the child poverty taskforce, which Phillipson co-chairs. Phillipson seeks a deputy leadership mandate to press for full removal and has expanded free school meals to lift 100,000 children out of poverty.
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