It was delayed months as ministers battled controversies in parliament while attempting to pull their plans together. We were promised spring and then autumn until, finally, the long-awaited child poverty strategy was released with weeks left of the year. So, was it worth the wait?

There’s certainly joy in this strategy. More than half a million children are expected to be lifted out of poverty by the end of the decade, the biggest reduction in child poverty in a single parliament since records began.

That is mostly down to one single measure: the end of the two-child limit on benefits . Anti-poverty campaigners have been calling for this for years, and there was an overwhelming sense of relief when the chancellor announced this in her autumn budget.

The research is overwhelming.

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