Nigel Farage has said it was a “mistake” to announce last year that Reform would lift the two-child benefit cap for British families. A policy scrapped by Robert Jenrick when he was appointed Reform’s shadow chancellor in February…
Farage said on the Today programme this morning:
“I made a mistake on this. I tried to do something pro-family. That’s obviously impossible in modern Britain. You know, what I said was, I would like British working families where both people are in full-time work to get some tax credits if they had more kids. And you know, for my sins I was accused of being a welfarist, so I’ve had to admit defeat… I was defeated by mass opinion of press, of everybody else…”
He nonetheless insisted he was “right” but “that discussion is over”…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”