Charities have long called for an end to the two-child limit on benefits , which is believed to be trapping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.

There are 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. Many are going hungry and living in cold and damp homes, or going to school without the proper uniforms because their families cannot afford it.

The Labour government has pledged to reduce child poverty in the UK and has proposed a child poverty strategy aimed at tackling this issue, but it is yet to scrap the two-child limit on benefits in spite of evidence that it could immediately lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokesperson said: “No child should be in poverty – and we are committed to ensuring that c

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