Starmer says Reform UK and Tories are in ‘cruel alliance’, as bill to get rid of two-child benefit cap unveiled

Starmer says Reform UK and Tories are in ‘cruel alliance’, as bill to get rid of two-child benefit cap unveiled – UK politics live

The legislation will be introduced today and the government says it will lift almost 500,000 children out of povertyOn the subject of Greenland, Peter Mandelson, the former Labour cabinet minister and former UK ambassador to the US, has argued in an article for the Spectator that European leaders like Keir Starmer are over-reacting to Donald Trump’s comments about the Arctic territory. Alexandra Topping has the story here.The Mandelson article is not just about Greenland; it is about Trump’s approach to foreign policy in general, and why Mandelson thinks that Trump is right to view the so-called rules-based international as essentially defunct. I wrote more about this on the blog yesterday. Continue reading...