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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Geraldine McKelvie

Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch in front of a small crowd of people holding up signs that say: stronger economy, stronger country
The Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch, during a visit to Sunderland last week. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

The Conservatives would reinstate the two-child benefit cap and use the savings for a wide-ranging spending splurge on defence in what Kemi Badenoch said would be “the biggest peacetime programme of rearmament in our country’s history”.

Speaking at a defence conference in London, the Tory leader criticised the government for Britain’s “lack of readiness” for war, which has been exposed by recent world events.

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