Yes I will try!! Always keen to make the case for action on the benefit cap too - so important.

While the scrapping of the two-child limit helps restore the link between need and entitlement in our social security system, the benefit cap remains. But that too can and must change, especially if we are to see improvements for those families who are currently living far below the poverty line.

Over the last five years @nuffieldfoundation.org funded @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social and I to research the impact of the two-child limit & the benefit cap largerfamilies.study

Not totally fixed until the benefit cap also goes though!! But yes a brilliant step in the right direction

Budget day is here. For all the reasons in this thread & for hundreds more, let’s hope @teamlabouruk.bsky.social does the right thing and gets rid of the two-child limit, a callous policy that has no place in a compassionate country

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And today it’s the turn of my father, Bruce who marks his 80th birthday. No cake yet but here’s a picture of him at around the time of my own birth, 45 years ago.

Budget day is here. For all the reasons in this thread & for hundreds more, let’s hope @teamlabouruk.bsky.social does the right thing and gets rid of the two-child limit, a callous policy that has no place in a compassionate country

largerfamilies.study

At tomorrow’s budget, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social can start the work of correcting a decade of wrongdoing after George Osbourne announced plans to introduce a two-child limit back in 2015. Social security can be a force for good & scrapping this cruel policy is a vital acknowledgment of that.

Less than 48 hours till the budget. Today, I'm sharing Christina's account of how the two-child limit affects every aspect of her and her children's lives.

We know the harm the two-child limit does. Let's get rid of it @cpaguk.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSF4...

A different one for today. I’m not religious but my own third child - Nina - sang at church today & it sounded incredible. Every child deserves the very best childhood, & the two-child limit & benefit cap both undermine that, in incredibly cruel ways. They must go. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Four days to go. Today I’m sharing an @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social which sets out why both the benefit cap and two child limit should be scrapped in full. Nicholas Barr @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social sets out tje ethcial and economic case for change: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...