Rachel Reeves and Nigel Farage

Rachel Reeves has claimed Nigel Farage’s opposition to the lifting of the two-child benefit cap is based on skin colour.

The chancellor’s punchy attack on the Reform UK leader comes as she is set to reveal new legislation to lift the Tory policy in April.

It comes a year after Labour insisted on keeping it as as cost-cutting measure, and earning plenty of backlash from its own MPs in the process.

Reeves told the Guardian she had delayed removing the cap, meant to help lift 550,000 children out of poverty, until the markets were stable.

This U-turn is set to cost the government £3 billion a year by 2029-30.

Farage told a press conference on Wednesday that his party will be voting........

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