Keir Starmer has hailed his government’s plan to tackle child poverty as a “moral mission”, with a promise to lift half a million children out of hardship.

It is the first such document in more than a decade and was described by the Resolution Foundation thinktank as a “sea change” in the government’s approach to children in poverty.

The plan was promised in spring, but delayed as cabinet ministers thrashed out a way to lift the two-child limit on universal credit. It appears to have been worth the wait for many Labour MPs, who are very happy about Rachel Reeves’s announcement at the budget that the cap would go . These are the key points from the strategy and the impact they will have:

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