The Guardian view on reducing child poverty: with the two-child limit gone, Labour must go further | Editorial

The new strategy has gaps. But ministers have shown that they are serious and capable of listeningIf the government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy, launched on Friday, was a bit of a damp squib, that is because the best bit had been absorbed by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in last month’s budget. The decision to remove the two-child limit, which prevented parents from claiming child-linked benefits for third or subsequent children, is expected to lift 550,000 children out of