The two-child cap was the single biggest driver of rising child poverty over the last decade, condemning 300,000 kids to hunger and hardship through no fault of their own. Lifting it delivers the biggest reduction in child poverty over a Parliament since records began, pulling 450,000 children out of poverty. Reinstating it, as Conservatives and Reform promise, is morally repugnant and a deliberate choice to plunge kids back into poverty.