Overview

• Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, co-chair of the child poverty taskforce and a deputy leadership candidate, said “everything is on the table, including removing the two-child limit.”
• Social security minister Stephen Timms said the strategy will be published this year and confirmed the cap will be addressed "one way or another."
• Rival deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell urged considering higher gambling taxes, echoing Gordon Brown–backed proposals to help fund lifting the cap.
• Government figures show the cap affected about 1.7 million children last year and analysts estimate scrapping it would cost roughly £3.5bn annually.
• Keir Starmer has not committed to abolition but has declined to rule it out, as internal party debates continue over funding and conference motions.