Making children poorer..

Sunak accused after pledging to keep two-child benefit cap

-  DAVE BURKE

RISHI Sunak has been accused of making children poor his "political priority" by keeping the two-child benefit cap.

The Prime Minister said the Tory manifesto will include a vow to keep the controversial policy.

Introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, it limits the benefits that parents on Universal Credit are entitled to, costing bigger families upwards of £3,200 a year.

Campaigners argue that lifting it would pull a quarter of a million children out of poverty, with pressure mounting on Keir Starmer to scrap it if he wins the election.