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Keir Starmer under pressure as senior Labour MP demands two-child benefit limit be scrapped

Keir Starmer under pressure as senior Labour MP demands two-child benefit limit be scrapped

Labour's Stella Creasy, who has been an MP for 15 years, called on the PM to scrap the two-child benefit policy as it would take '350,000 children out of poverty overnight'

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