We asked every Greater Manchester MP about Labour's most controversial move so far

Labour is under pressure to scrap a controversial policy which has been blamed for causing children to live in poverty.

The two-child benefit cap, which was introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or universal credit for more than two children. More than 28,000 families in Greater Manchester are affected, according to recent data.

Child poverty campaigners have branded the policy 'cruel' and said it needs to be abolished. But Keir Starmer has resisted calls to scrap the Tory austerity-era measure and instead launched a new Child Poverty Unit and taskforce after the King's Speech this week.

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It comes after ministers met with leading charities and campaigners to discuss its plans for an 'ambitious' child poverty strategy. The government has said the new unit will explore how it can use 'all the available levers' to tackle child poverty across the country.

But campaigners say scrapping the two-child policy is one of the 'big levers' that the government needs to pull now. It comes as more than half of children in some parts of Greater Manchester are living in poverty, with Oldham, Bolton and Blackley at the top of the list.

Some MPs have now tabled amendments to the King's Speech calling for the controversial policy to be scrapped. This includes one which has been signed by several Labour MPs, with the SNP, the Green Party and independent MPs tabling their own amendments.

The Manchester Evening News asked all 27 MPs in Greater Manchester if they want the two-child benefit cap policy to be scrapped. Most of our parliamentary representatives - 25 of whom are now Labour MPs - did not respond