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Keir Starmer faces poverty grilling from top MPs amid call to axe DWP two-child benefit limit

Keir Starmer faces poverty grilling from top MPs amid call to axe DWP two-child benefit limit

Keir Starmer, who will appear at the Liaison Committee on Monday, has been warned that without scrapping the Tory-era two-child benefit limit he risks overseeing a rise in poverty

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