Labour peer says policy keeps hundreds of thousands of children in poverty

Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it

Rising levels of poverty ‘would make Charles Dickens furious’, former Labour leader says

Lord Kinnock, who led Labour in opposition between 1983 and 1992, is the latest senior party figure to pressure the current Government to end the two-child limit on benefits.

Labour peer says policy keeps hundreds of thousands of children in poverty

Stephen Kinnock says discussions about policy are ‘ongoing’ after his father, the ex-Labour leader, calls for end to limit on tax credit

Conservative critics say the two-child cap is essential to preventing families on benefits from receiving packages worth more than the minimum wage