In full: No ‘silver bullet’ on reducing child poverty, says Starmer

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was at Farnborough International Airshow when he told the audience there is “no silver bullet” to alleviate child poverty as he faces a Labour rebellion over calls to scrap the two-child benefit cap. The Prime Minister said: “There is no silver bullet. If there was a silver bullet it would have been shot a very long time ago. It is a complicated set of factors that I know and I can see everyday in my own constituency to do with pay, to do with benefits, to do with work, to do with housing, to do with education, to do with health. ”That is why you need a strategy to deal with it which is why we have set up a very strongly chaired body to drive forward that work. ”So I am not surprised we are having a debate about it. It is good that we are having a debate about it. What matters is that we turn that into action and reduce child poverty which is what I am determined that we will do.” Read your updates here: