Does the State have a duty to lift the two-child benefit cap to promote human flourishing?      

Unless you have been living as an anchorite for the last year or so, you cannot have missed the pressure on the government to lift the two-child benefit cap: that is, put simply, the rule that couples on universal credit get no supplements to their income beyond the first two children.

The pressure to lift the cap has not only come from left-wing parliamentarians and Labour grandees such as Gordon Brown. Three weeks ago the Anglican Archbishop of York weighed in, saying the present policy added to the “reality of child poverty”.