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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Athena Stavrou

Farage’s conditional pledge to remove child benefit cap ‘would plunge 450,000 into poverty’

New official analysis suggests that Nigel Farage’s policy on child benefit would plunge at least 450,000 children back into poverty if Reform UK were to win power.

Mr Farage seized headlines when he announced that he would scrap the two child benefit cap, months before Labour decided to do it in last month’s Budget.

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