Two-Child Benefit Cap (King's Speech)

367 Labour MPs voted against scrapping the two-child benefit cap, just days after winning power. Zero Labour MPs rebelled.

For years in opposition, Labour called the two-child limit "cruel" and a key driver of child poverty. An amendment to the King's Speech would have committed the new government to abolishing it. Every single Labour MP voted it down.

The two-child limit pushes an estimated 250,000 children into poverty.