Starmer has faced repeated calls from anti-poverty campaigners to ditch the hated Tory policy.
The hated Tory policy is blamed by charities for pushing many larger families into poverty.
But in a softening of his position, the Labour leader said he wouldn't scrap the policy "at the moment" due to the dire state of public finances. Asked by BBC Radio 4 if he would consider scrapping the cap, the Labour leader said: “In an ideal world, of course. But we haven’t got the resources to do it at the moment.
A major academic study into the effects of the two-child cap previously found it was a “poverty-producing” initiative over the past six years.The two-child limit was introduced in 2017 and left an estimated 32,000 households containing 110,000 children worse off.
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