Benefit cap suffers Lords defeat


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The government has been defeated in the Lords in a vote on its plans for a £26,000-a-year household benefit cap.

Peers backed a bishop’s amendment by 252 to 237 that child benefit should not be included in the cap.

Critics argued that imposing the same cap on all families, regardless of size, would

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