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'You'll see measures to cut child poverty soon'
Daily Mirror UK
|November 12, 2025
Starmer hints Budget will ditch 2-kid benefit cap
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer has hinted Labour will finally scrap the two-child benefit limit soon.
He said yesterday he is "personally determined" to cut child poverty after Rachel Reeves also suggested the Tory-era policy will be scrapped.
Charities say it would lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty.
On ITV's Lorraine programme, Mr Starmer said: "I am determined to drive child poverty down.
This story is from the November 12, 2025 edition of Daily Mirror UK.
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