Two-child benefit cap scrap update as Starmer says 'clear personal intent'

Backbench Labour MPs and several education unions have called for an end to the two-child benefit cap, as Sir Keir Starmer heads to Liverpool for his party’s conference. The Prime Minister will be joined in the North West by delegates and activists for the event which begins at the weekend and continues until Wednesday.

The annual conference is Sir Keir’s second since he won the keys to No 10, and he faces calls from his own MPs to scrap a Conservative-era ban on most families claiming benefits for more than two children. The Prime Minister has vowed in a Guardian interview to take “measures to bring down child poverty”.

Ahead of the conference, Sir Keir unveiled plans for a digital ID system, which he told the Global Progress Action summit in London could be “the bedrock of the modern