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60% of voters back it - so why is Labour set to scrap the two-child benefits cap?

60% of voters back it - so why is Labour set to scrap the two-child benefits cap?

If Labour jettisoned the two-child benefit limit – at an estimated annual cost of £3.5bn – it would help placate backbench critics dismayed by disability benefit cuts and the scrapping of the winter fuel payment. But Labour would be abolishing a policy that around 60 per cent of voters - and some party strategists – support

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