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"I hope that the new child poverty taskforce provides the rapid justification for making changes ASAP, and will be making noise to this effect along with many other colleagues."

I wrote to my new Labour MP, James McNaish (nephew of Alastair Campbell) about the two- child benefit cap. Here's his reply:

"On the two-child benefit cap, it is a source of great frustration for MPs that this hasn't been included in the King’s Speech; BUT it wasn't in our manifesto, so it would have been dangerous politically to start including brand new commitments less than two weeks after a general election. You can imagine the opposition narrative…...cont/