A public health expert has claimed that the two-child benefit cap is tantamount to eugenics, ahead of a vote in the Commons on Tuesday evening.

Michael Marmot, a professor of public health at UCL, told LBC's Andrew Marr that the cap was harmful to children's wellbeing.

He said: "These children can't wait and it also bothers me of what it says about us as a society. It's almost a form of eugenics saying if poor families choose to have extra children, we're going to clobber them.

"If you consign something like 1.6 million children to further hardship, that's going to affect their trajectory for the rest of their lives.

"I can't tell you how to juggle public sector pay and child poverty but it will damage children's mental health, their physical health, we know the stress of poverty in parents gets passed onto the children."

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