Reform UK would reimpose two-child benefit cap

Reform UK has said it would reintroduce the two-child benefit cap in full if the party wins power, in a shift away from scrapping the limit.

The policy, introduced under the Conservatives in 2017, means parents can only claim universal credit or tax credits for their first two children.

Reform UK would reimpose two-child benefit cap, BBC

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said

Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Reform UK’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election has said the party would put public sector unions “under review” if it came to power, in a sign of the challenges Nigel Farage faces as he seeks to court working-class voters.

“[Reform] will place public sector trade unions under review,” Matthew Goodwin said during a speech in early December, before the by-election had been called, at which he set out a wide-ranging policy vision for a Reform government to “fix broken Britain”.

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said, ft.com

Analysis of Reform UK proposal for income tax cuts in Scotland

The biggest direct beneficiaries of such a change would be the high-income taxpayers who currently pay substantially more in income tax than in the rest of the UK

But this does not properly confront the challenges they would face in finding £2 billion or more of spending cuts in the coming parliament.

Analysis of Reform UK proposal for income tax cuts in Scotland, ifs.org.uk