Keeping the two-child benefit cap is deeply irresponsible borrowing

The retention of the cap is being presented as fiscally responsible. It's not: the cap amounts to lending from future generations at an exorbitant interest.

We are now days away from Budget, with no signs from Labour that they’ll budge on their inexplicable decision to keep one of George Osborne’s most odious policies: the two-child cap on benefits. True, Keir Starmer has said it will be scrapped at some point in the future when fiscal conditions allow. But even with fiscal rules now rightly set to be redef…