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TORY grandee Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said removing the two-child benefit cap was “certainly worth looking at.”
But his comments come despite the former Tory leader’s own eagerness to implement the controversial policy as work and pensions secretary between 2010 and 2016.
Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, he told the Mirror: “It’s a debate that needs to go on. I said I wouldn’t necessarily be against changing it.
“I just want to see the evidence that says things would improve if you did.”
He added that “there’s always a case” and that the Centre for Social for Justice think tank he co-founded is planning to look at the policy in detail soon.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces pressure to scrap the austerity-era policy that came into force in 2017.
Seven MPs were suspended from Labour after voting against the government to have it removed in July.
Scrapping the policy would lift 300,000 kids out of poverty, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.
