Reeves suggests two-child benefit cap will fully go, saying childen in big families should not be ‘penalised’ – as it happened

Reeves suggests two-child benefit cap will fully go, saying childen in big families should not be ‘penalised’ – as it happened


Chancellor interviewed on Radio 5 Live and says it’s unfair to penalise children in bigger families. This live blog is closed

  • Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget

Farage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.

Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because capitalism is failing.

No, we’re not living in capitalism. We’re living in an age of global corporatism.

The other great betrayal is that is every one of these millions of businesses, every one of these 5.6 million businesses, believed that, with Brexit, the regulatory burden on their shoulders would become less.

I can tell you, a decade on, almost from the referendum, in every single industry, from financial services to fisheries, the burden of regulation and the threat of the regulator is worse now than it was then.

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