Keir Starmer faces his first Commons revolt as PM over two child benefit limit

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00:00I think across the Labour Party, I also think across the Parliamentary Labour Party,

00:03I think there's a view that this should be done, and it's better done sooner rather than later.

00:08So I think the argument has been won. It's just now, now we're in government,

00:14it's just a matter of saying, look, how practically can we do this? And most of us

00:19think this needs to be done sooner rather than later, because the immense suffering our children

00:25are going through in every constituency. We have hundreds of children living in poverty that this

00:30could lift them out of that poverty. If it wasn't in the budget, I'd seek to amend the budget to

00:35make sure it was. And on that basis, I think we most probably would have a majority view

00:41within Parliament itself across most political parties, include the Labour Party. But I don't

00:46think it will come to that. I actually do think there's such an overwhelming view that this is

00:51something that needs to be done. I think the government will want to get on with it.

00:55How many Labour MPs do you think agree with you?

00:57I think the bulk of them do.