Lucy Powell: Labour should raise gambling taxes to axe two-child benefit cap

Lucy Powell acknowledged the public was ‘exasperated’ with ‘some mistakes’ Labour had made in office. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

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 suggested.

The Manchester Central MP, who is battling with the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, to succeed Angela Rayner as Labour’s deputy leader, also acknowledged the public was “exasperated” because of “some mistakes” Labour had made in office.