Sunak urged to drop ‘unspeakably cruel’ two-child limit and benefit cap

SNP’s Kirsten Oswald says PM should scrap policies, including the controversial ‘rape clause’, to lift 500,000 out of poverty

Rishi Sunak has been urged to drop “unspeakably cruel” policies in order to lift half a million people out of poverty.

The Scottish National party MP Kirsten Oswald has urged the prime minister to U-turn on his decision to back the two-child limit and benefit cap policies set by his predecessors.