NEW Labour big beasts are at war over proposals to scrap the two-child benefit cap — as statistics suggest more youngsters are being plunged into poverty.

In a bombshell intervention, ex-Home Secretar y David Blunkett today comes out against tearing up the welfare limit.

It puts him at loggerheads with former PM Gordon Brown, who branded the benefit cap cruel and is leading the charge to abolish it.

Lord Blunkett’s explosive comments come as Sir Keir Starmer is under huge pressure over the policy.

An estimated 4.5million kids were living in relative poverty last year compared with 4.3million the year before, figures from the End Child Poverty coalition show.

Furious Labour MPs are in open revolt over the two-child cap — which they want scrapped.

Imposed in 2017, it stops parents

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