Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, former party leader Neil Kinnock has said as he called for a 'Robin Hood' wealth tax.
Lord Kinnock claimed rising levels of poverty 'would make Charles Dickens furious' and claimed the Tories had undone hard work that was begun by Gordon Brown.
The 83-year-old, who led Labour in opposition from 1983 to 1992, is the latest senior party figure to urge the current Government to end the two-child limit on benefits.
The two-child benefit limit was brought in by the Conservatives in 2017 and restricts child tax credit and universal credit (UC) to the first two children in most households.
But organisations working in the sector argue that an estimated 350,000 children would be lifted out of poverty immediately at a cost of £2billion if it was scrapped.
