The government will consider scrapping the controversial two-child benefit cap, a cabinet minister has said amid growing pressure for the measure to be dropped.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said scrapping the cap would be looked at “as one of a number of ways” to lift children out of poverty, signalling a softening of the government's previous position and paving the way for a potential U-turn.
It comes as Sir Keir Starmer could face the threat of his first backbench revolt over the benefit cap that affects some 1.6 million children.
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