Keir Starmer implies two-child benefit cap demonstrates Labour can make 'tough decisions'

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, has suggested that keeping the Tories' two-child benefit cap demonstrates his party's willingness to make tough decisions. Speaking at a Future of Britain conference organised by the Tony Blair Institute, Starmer said: 'My first reaction is we keep saying collectively as a party that we have to make tough decisions. And in the abstract, everyone says: "That’s right Keir" ... But then we get into the tough decision – we’ve been in one of those for the last few days – and they say: "We don’t like that, can we just not make that one, I’m sure there is another tough decision somewhere else we can make." But we have to take the tough decisions.' UK politics: live updates