Farage says Reform would scrap two-child benefit cap

NIGEL Farage has declined to commit to the triple lock pensions guarantee as he said his party would scrap the two-child benefit cap because “it’s the right thing to do”.

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The Reform UK leader also com-mitted his party to fully reversing the winter fuel payment cuts announced by Labour upon entering government.

The two-child benefit limit was first announced in 2015 by the Conservatives and came into effect in 2017. It restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most house-holds.

Cabinet ministers have now said scrapping the two-child ben-efit cap is not off the table and last week Sir Keir Starmer U-turned on winter fuel payments, saying he wanted to look at widening eligi-bility for the payments, worth up to £300.