Brian WheelerPolitical reporter BBC Dame Meg Hillier says child poverty is damaging to the economy Chancellor Rachel Reeves must scrap the two-child benefit cap as an investment in the country’s economic future, a senior Labour MP has said. Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Treasury select committee, said ending the limit was not only...
Jennifer McKiernanpolitical reporter PA Media The prime minister has refused to be drawn on the leadership ambitions of Andy Burnham but drew a comparison between the Manchester mayor’s economic proposals and the policies of Liz Truss. Sir Keir Starmer’s comments come after Burnham told the Daily Telegraph he had been been contacted by Labour MPs...