3 articles
• via BBC News
Rachel Reeves plans to scrap the two-child benefit limit, easing child poverty at a steep cost that forces breaches of Labour's tax pledges. This trade-off exposes ongoing fiscal fragility across governments.
• via BBC News
Rachel Reeves' push to scrap the two-child benefit limit aims to cut child poverty, yet funding via tax hikes breaches Labour pledges and highlights recurring fiscal-political tensions across governments.
• via The Guardian
Seven months after Labour promised to end mass food bank dependency, 14 million Britons—one in six households—are now food insecure. With working families increasingly reliant on charity, the government's failure to tackle the root causes of poverty is driving systemic decline and social unrest.