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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Eleni Courea and Peter Walker

Labour MPs celebrate end of two-child benefit cap in Reeves’s budget

Rachel Reeves addressing nurses during a visit to University College London hospital on Wednesday.
Rachel Reeves addressed nurses during a visit to University College London hospital after her budget speech on Wednesday. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AP

Labour MPs have publicly thrown their weight behind Rachel Reeves’s budget after she abolished the two-child benefit cap and unveiled a slate of progressive measures, including a mansion tax.

Backbenchers rallied round the prime minister and chancellor on Wednesday afternoon after Keir Starmer hailed the measures being announced as “a Labour budget with Labour values”.

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