Labour MPs celebrate end of two-child benefit cap in Reeves’s budget
Abolition is popular with backbenchers and is expected to stabilise precarious positions of the PM and chancellorLabour MPs have publicly thrown their weight behind Rachel Reeves’s budget after she abolished the two-child benefit cap and unveiled a slate of progressive measures, including a...
<p>Abolition is popular with backbenchers and is expected to stabilise precarious positions of the PM and chancellor</p><p>Labour MPs have publicly thrown their weight behind <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rachel-reeves">Rachel Reeves</a>’s budget after she abolished the two-child benefit cap and unveiled a slate of progressive measures, including a mansion tax.</p><p>Backbenchers rallied round the prime minister and chancellor on Wednesday afternoon after Keir Starmer hailed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/26/budget-2025-key-points-rachel-reeves">the measures being announced</a> as “a Labour budget with Labour values”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/26/labour-mps-celebrate-end-of-two-child-benefit-cap-in-rachel-reeves-budget">Continue reading...</a>
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