Rachel Reeves is doing little to push back on this evening’s briefings to the Sun and the Guardian on the lifting of the two-child benefit cap. Speaking to Matt Forde at Labour Conference this evening, Reeves said of the reports:
“Keir said in his speech today that we will reduce child poverty in this parliament, but we will set out the policies in the budget. I think we’ve been pretty clear this week that we can’t commit to policies without explaining where the money is going to come from… over the last year the conflicts in the world have continued and intensified. That puts pressures on government budgets, we’ve had disruptions to the supply chains which keeps inflation high…”
Asked later if she would, as reported, introduce a tapered chid benefit system, Reeves again said she would set all that out at the Winter Budget. So that’s a ‘yes, but brace for tax hikes to pay for it’…
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