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The Budget starts to address the cost-of-living crisis but the government needs to go further, say Labour MPs

They welcome the abolition of the 'cruel' two-child limit but say the government should have focused on making the super rich ...
Left Foot Forward

The Budget takes steps to tackle cost-of-living crisis but the government must go further, say Labour MPs

Many MPs have welcomed the abolition of the two-child limit but say the government should have focused on making the super rich pay more tax ...
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Mel Stride says he doesn’t agree with hundreds of thousands of children being lifted out of poverty

The chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision to scrap the limit in April 2026 is being widely welcomed by MPs, think tanks and children’s charities, as it will lift 450,000 children out of poverty by 2029, ...
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Zia Yusuf rattled by LBC presenter asking him if Nigel Farage is a Russian asset

Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf became rattled during an LBC interview, where presenter Shelagh Fogarty and SNP MP Stephen Flynn grilled him over Nathan Gill.