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PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be liftedUK politics live – latest updatesDecades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has …
Culture secretary also condemns MPs who dismiss BBC as ‘institutionally biased’ in swipe at Badenoch and Farage. This live blog is closedHere is a round-up of what various lawyers and commentators have been saying about Donald Trump’s legal case agains…
Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of povertyRachel Reeves is planning to remove the two-child benefit cap in full in the November budget, in a move that could …
Chancellor interviewed on Radio 5 Live and says it’s unfair to penalise children in bigger families. This live blog is closedReeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budgetFarage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failur…
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UKHome Office travel records used in a trial of a controversial anti-fraud crackdown under which thousands of parents lost their child benefit…
New deputy leader also calls on government to lift two-child benefit cap urgently and in fullLabour should stand by its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT, its deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said in a direct challe…
Answers demanded after 23,500 families wrongly suspected of fraud when incorrect data showed they had left UKMPs are demanding answers from HMRC over a child benefit error in which payments to 23,500 families were stopped as part of an anti-fraud crack…
Watchdog contacts tax authority after families’ payments stopped based on flawed travel dataMinisters may have breached privacy laws when they suspended the child benefit of thousands of families on the basis of flawed Home Office information, legal ex…
Signatories of open letter include National Children’s Bureau, Barnardo’s and celebrities such as Emilia ClarkeCelebrities, MPs and children’s charities are among dozens of signatories to an open letter ramping up pressure on the government to set tar…
No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves’ husband and letting agentRachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new informationRobert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Ra…