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A group of more than 40 British musicians, including Radiohead, Dua Lipa, and Coldplay, have signed a statement to the U.K. government asking Prime Minister Keir…

Bridget Phillipson, No 10’s preferred candidate for deputy leader, recently called the two-child benefit cap “spiteful”. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, labelled it “abhorrent.…

Rachel Reeves is to lift the two-child benefit limit in the budget, a key demand of Labour MPs and child poverty campaigners, with officials exploring options…

Teaching unions have written to the prime minister asking him to scrap the two-child benefit cap ahead of Labour’s annual conference, which begins in Liverpool on…

Labour has restored the party whip John McDonnell and Apsana Begum 14 months after they lost it for rebelling over the two-child benefit cap, the Guardian…

The Premier League will try to finalise details of new spending rules at its first shareholders’ meeting of the season on Tuesday amid growing opposition to…

Labour should consider raising taxes on gambling firms to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap, the party’s deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell has…

Ministers are a step closer to abandoning the two-child benefit cap after Downing Street’s preferred candidate to be Labour’s deputy leader said the policy was “spiteful”…

Baxter HolmesSep 3, 2025, 12:17 PM ETCloseBaxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the…

Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, the party’s former leader Neil Kinnock has urged.Rising levels of poverty “would…