Downing Street has just announced a “Ministerial Taskforce” on child poverty after days of open clamouring from backbenchers for the government to scrap the two-child benefit limit. Liz Kendall and Bridget Phillipson will lead it. There are “heavy hints” it will address the two-child cap and probably get rid of it…

Labour left-wingers planned to table an amendment to the King’s Speech which would remove the cap. Is backbench clamouring and a few tense media interviews with Cabinet members all it takes to ditch “fiscal responsibility”?