By Alison Garnham

As the budget gets closer and debate about what the country can afford gets ever louder, it’s easy for the voices and interests of the 4.5 million children living in poverty to be drowned out.

But with the Government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy delayed to coincide with the budget, families up and down the country are desperate for it to contain action to improve their living standards.

The Government has a popular commitment – first made in its manifesto and repeated many times since – to reduce child poverty in this parliament. And the best, in fact, the only way for them to do that is to abolish the two-child limit.

The two-child limit is an austerity-era policy that is still being rolled........

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