MPs set to vote on scrapping two-child benefit cap - with Labour rebels expected to back SNP

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle selected the SNP's amendment to overturn the policy, meaning Sir Keir Starmer may face his first rebellion as prime minister.

MPs are set to vote over whether to scrap the two-child benefit cap this afternoon, after an SNP amendment was selected by the speaker. A number of Labour rebels are expected to vote with the opposition party as a row rages between them and the new government over whether to abandon the policy.

But MPs on the left of the party say it is essential to help reduce increasing child poverty across the country. Posting on X, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell confirmed he would vote for the SNP amendment, adding: 'I don't like voting for other party's amendments but I am following Keir Starmer's example as he said 'put country before party'. 'So, I am putting lifting children out of poverty before party whipping.

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