Gambling tax is win for families

IT is now a given that Rachel Reeves will raise taxes in November's Budget.

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The Chancellor has no good options - only the least worst. She is also under pressure from MPs to find ways to scrap the two-child benefit cap, lifting 350,000 children out of poverty.

Labour deputy leadership contender Lucy Powell says the answer is higher gambling taxes - first put forward by former PM Gordon Brown as a way to raise the £3.2billion needed.