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Scrapping two-child benefit cap may be harder after welfare U-turn, minister says
Bridget Phillipson stresses that changes to welfare bill after last week’s threatened rebellion by backbench MPs have come at a cost
Downing Street’s U-turn on welfare reforms last week will make it harder to implement other policies such as potentially scrapping the two-child benefit cap, Bridget Phillipson has said.
The education minister said Labour was still committed to tackling child poverty but, when asked if the backbench rebellion that resulted in about £5bn of annual savings on welfare being scrapped had diminished the chances of the cap being removed, she said there was an impact.
