Child Poverty Strategy (Removal of Two Child Limit) - 16th September 2025

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Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-09-16/debates/C6318043-CA9D-4B42-9E36-56C9A8F9D339/ChildPovertyStrategyRemovalofTwoChildLimit

15:45 Peter Bedford (Conservative)

Unfortunately, it is not just those on the Government Benches who are promoting this recklessness. The Green party wants to spend £40 billion on its radical net zero agenda while still backing the two-child cap’s removal, and the SNP wants to add billions to their welfare bill by pursuing an open borders immigration policy paid for by hard-working Scots. Most surprisingly of all, though, is Reform UK’s position. Many of their hon. Members are proud Thatcherites—or so I thought. They appear to have undergone a damascene conversion and are now, I believe, backing scrapping the cap—a policy that would hammer hard-working ordinary white van men across the country. As we approach what would have been Mrs Thatcher’s centenary, I can only imagine what she would have to say about such an anti-aspirational and profligate approach to the public finances. Politicians simply cannot claim to want to reduce the welfare bill while pursuing policies that would push that bill up by billions.

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