The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs
And just like that, the two-child benefit limit was finally abolished.
“I don’t intend to preside over a status quo that punishes children for the circumstances of their birth,” the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told the Commons, as she used the budget to scrap, from April 2026, one of Britain’s most controversial policies.
Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist