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Morgan joins calls for 'damaging' two-child benefit cap to end

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May 30, 2025

SIR Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure to abolish the two-child benefit cap, following comments from Wales' First Minister who labelled it “damaging” for families.

- By RHIANNON JAMES and STEVE BAGNALL

There appear to be tensions between the Prime Minister and the Welsh Labour leader in recent weeks, with Baroness Eluned Morgan recently urging for the winter fuel allowance to be reinstated for the “majority of pensioners” and a rethink on planned welfare cuts.

Introduced by the Tories in 2017, the benefit cap limits child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in a majority of households.

The Government has faced ongoing calls to scrap the policy, highlighted by seven Labour MPs defying party lines to vote against the King’s Speech due to its omission of a pledge to remove the cap, all within Sir Keir’s initial month as leader.

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