If you were outside King’s Cross station or parliament at midnight, you might have spotted a bold stunt highlighting the scale of child poverty in the UK.
Save the Children projected images across the Houses of Parliament and King’s Cross – which is in Keir Starmer’s constituency – with key statistics calling on the prime minister to axe the two-child limit on benefits.
The policy traps hundreds of thousands of children in hardship by limiting families from getting extra universal credit or tax credits for their third or subsequent children.
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Around 1.6 million children are impacted by the two-child limit, a figure which Save the Children expects to rise for another consecutive year when updated statistics are published this Thursday (10 July).
An estimated 109 children fall into poverty each day because of the two-child limit on benefits.