A fight to strike down the Tories’ cruel two-child limit on benefits reached the UK’s highest court today. Lawyers told the Supreme Court the austerity cut - which affects almost a million children - will cause “deep and inescapable child poverty”.
And they warned it pressurises some women into abstaining from sex or having abortions in a breach of human rights. The landmark legal case reached the Supreme Court after previously being dismissed in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Campaigners today argued the cut breaches the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The battle was brought by two anonymous mums, SC and CB, who had their youngest children shortly after the limit took force in
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