Nigel Farage's big announcement will pile more pressure on PM

No U-turn comes without a governmental cost.

This weekend, it has go wide determination is simply a terms to wage for Sir Keir Starmer's determination to enactment backmost connected wintertime substance outgo cuts.

One MP said successful a substance message: "We each privation to spot more", portion erstwhile premier curate Gordon Brown told Sky News this week the two-child payment headdress was "pretty discriminatory" and could beryllium scrapped.

The cap, which prevents parents from claiming kid taxation recognition oregon cosmopolitan recognition for much than 2 children, is simply a symbolic sore for Labour that saw seven MPs suspended from the enactment past year.

Now it's backmost to origin much trouble.

A Downing Street root suggests small has changed successful the past week, and looking astatine the headdress has ever been portion of the (now delayed) Child Poverty Strategy.

But, beyond the whispers down the scenes, 1 happening has overtly changed this play - increasing unit from Nigel Farage.

We expect Reform UK to denote this week that it will reinstate wintertime substance payments and driblet the cap.

Farage is parking his tanks connected Labour's lawn, trying to pat into working-class votes connected uncomfortable territory for Starmer.

How would they wage for it? A operation of closing asylum hotels, cutting aid, and scrapping net-zero targets, the enactment says.

Headline-grabbing move

The quality of not being successful powerfulness is not having to marque each the sums adhd up close now, and it is simply a headline-grabbing announcement that will, astatine the precise least, reignite the speech astir the two-child cap.

It's besides a reminder that Reform UK, who were beaten by Labour successful 89 retired of the 98 constituencies they came 2nd successful past year, person acceptable their sights beyond the Conservatives.

As for the Tories, who introduced the measurement successful 2017, person Kemi Badenoch is clear, saying: "If you can't spend to person tons of children, past you shouldn't bash so".

Blue h2o betwixt Tories and Reform UK

So, determination is bluish h2o betwixt the Conservatives and Reform, but it's the premier curate and his enactment that Farage is targeting now, and Labour is unclear connected wherever it stands.

Deputy person Angela Rayner told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that "lifting immoderate measures that alleviate poorness is not a atrocious idea".

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With the spending reappraisal accelerated approaching, Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves volition beryllium moving retired the existent cost, beyond the governmental one, of rowing backmost connected wintertime substance outgo cuts.

But volition the choler that the argumentation ignited among immoderate Labour MPs extremity there? Or volition it determination to different uncomfortable subject?

As 1 MP puts it: "If there's wealth for pensioners, wherefore not children?"