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Budget 2025: Chancellor abolishes two-child limit

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00:00We on this side of the House do not believe that the solution to a broken

00:03welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable. We are lifting 450,000

00:09children out of poverty with the end of the two child limits. And, Madam Deputy

00:16Speaker, combined with other actions we are taking, this Labour government is

00:20achieving the biggest reduction in child poverty over a Parliament since records

00:25began. That is the difference that this Labour government is making.

00:31Madam Deputy Speaker, I know how worried families are about the cost of

00:36everything. Worried that their money will stretch to the end of the month. Worried

00:42that price—I think if you have got a house that is worth five million pounds a

00:47year, you can probably afford it—but you get more exercise about reducing

00:54child poverty than you do about the richest-paying war.

01:02Under this government, wages have risen by more since we were elected than in ten

01:08years under the last government, with lower interest rates already saving

01:13families £1,200 a year off a typical new mortgage, compared to that when Liz

01:19trusts was Prime Minister.

01:20wages are sensitive to the prayer

01:37agencies which have been evaluated at the world sister underwater, with less

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