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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Reeves leaves door open to gambling tax rise in autumn budget

The Chancellor said she was ‘deeply concerned’ about child poverty (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

Rachel Reeves left the door open to a rise in gambling taxes after Gordon Brown urged her to raise levies to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap.

The Chancellor said she was “deeply concerned” about child poverty as she faced questions about the former prime minister’s proposal to increase duties for online casinos and slot machines to fund welfare reform.

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