Keir Starmer says he wants to cut child poverty before next election

The prime minister told MPs on the Commons liaison committee it was his aim to cut the number of children living in poverty by the end of the parliament, going further than the manifesto pledge his party made before last year’s election. Starmer’s target will renew focus on ending the two-child benefit cap, which poverty campaigners say is the most efficient way to take children out of poverty but would cost an estimated £3.6bn a year

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