North-west and West Midlands worst hit, says thinktank, and in some areas half of children live below breadline
Keir Starmer has been warned that the two-child benefit cap has contributed to a widening gulf in regional poverty, leaving almost half of all children in some towns and cities living below the breadline.
With the prime minister under pressure to drop the policy, research from the Resolution Foundation showed a “very strong relationship” between local levels of child poverty and the share of families affected by the measure introduced by the previous Conservative government.
