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”…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”