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Sir Keir Starmer is now virtually sure to shelve plans to scrap the two-child profit cap with no cash left after Labour’s £5 billion retreat on welfare. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson admitted on Sunday that the U-turn will make it tougher to pay for different insurance policies reminiscent of probably scrapping the two-child profit restrict.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she stated: “The decisions that have been taken in the last week do make future decisions harder. But, all of that said, we will look at this collectively in terms of all of the ways that we can lift children out of poverty.” She added: “The mission that we’re driving across government is about making sure that background doesn’t determine success, because for far too many children in our country, the family that they’re born into, the town that they’re born into, will absolutely determine their life chances.”

Asked the identical query on Sky’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Phillipson stated: “The changes in the last week, of course, have come at a cost, and we have been upfront about that.”

Ms Phillipson stated she had heard the views of the numerous Labour backbenchers and little one poverty charities who needed the two-child profit cap eliminated.

The cap, which limits dad and mom to claiming many means-tested advantages to their first two youngsters, aside from in very restricted circumstances, was launched underneath the Conservatives.

Experts stated scrapping it could be the one only manner of lowering little one poverty.

But a No 10 supply steered scrapping it was now off the desk. They stated: “My assessment is that is now dead in the water.”

Meanwhile the Tories have demanded that foreigners are banned from claiming key incapacity advantages within the wake of Labour’s humiliating U-turn on welfare reforms.

Conservative shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride stated the get together is asking for a dialogue paper on whether or not international nationals needs to be receiving illness advantages.

Asked on Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips whether or not it’s proper that they’re going to suggest that international nationals needs to be excluded from entry to illness advantages, he stated: “So we’ve tabled an amendment to the welfare Bill that’s going through Parliament at the moment, saying that we think the Government should come through with a discussion paper on that issue and addressing this question as to whether foreign nationals should be receiving those kind of benefits.

“We know that, for example, over the last three years, the number of foreign nationals claiming these benefits has doubled. And we know that if you take those households with at least one foreign national within the household, the welfare Bill is about a billion pounds per month. So the numbers are very high.

“We would, of course, be excluding not just those that are British citizens, but those that have rights under international treaties to settle in the United Kingdom.”

Put to him that massive numbers of people that work within the NHS are international nationals and requested why they might be punished, Sir Mel stated there are “already particular arrangements around foreign nationals and their access to benefits” and they’re calling for a dialogue doc “so there are lots of questions that we need to consider”.