Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor says policy introduced in 2017 is arbitrary and cannot be justified Andy Burnham has thrown further weight behind calls to scrap the two-child benefit limit, calling it an abhorrent policy, which represents the “worst of Westminster”. The two-child limit, which was introduced by the Conservative government in 2017, only allows families to claim universal credit and tax credits for up to two children. Continue reading...

Vonnegut hated them and Lincoln thought them ‘useful little chaps’. I, meanwhile, have come round to the charms of this controversial punctuation mark after years on the fence, writes Arwa Mahdawi