Campaigners and Labour MPs hail Rachel Reeves’ decision to scrap two

Ditching the policy will result in an estimated reduction of child poverty by 450,000.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves insisted she will not “preside over a status quo that punishes children for the circumstances of their birth” as she confirmed the scrapping of the controversial two-child benefits limit.

Ditching the policy will result in an estimated reduction of child poverty by 450,000 and cost around £3 billion at the end of this Parliament.

Labour had been under increasing pressure from anti-poverty campaigners, as well as many MPs within its own party, to end a policy introduced under the Conservatives.

Labour MPs Helen Hayes and Debbie Abrahams, who chair the education and work and pensions committees respectively, said it was a “very welcome” move and a “positive start”, but indicate