The two-child benefit cap is indefensible. It's got to go.

There is no excuse to retain Osborne's performative cruelty. Even electorally, keeping it can only alienate any Tories who might yet vote Labour—and it makes no social, moral or economic sense either.

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If you live in the UK, it is very likely that at some point today, you passed by a child in deep, Dickensian poverty. Over 3 million children - a quarter of the total of young people under 16 - are considered poor in the UK. This isn’t because the government can’t afford it. The UK is still one of the wealthiest co…