Heidi Alexander: ‘Tackling child poverty is in the DNA of the Labour Party’

The expectation is that Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ upcoming budget will lift the two child benefit cap. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg suggested that Labour have been giving mixed messages, with the chancellor saying she was determined to get welfare spending under control. Alexander said that growing up in poverty creates a ‘lifetime of consequences’, and three quarters of children in poverty are in households where both parents work. The transport secretary said she was confident that there would be fewer children in poverty at the end of Labour’s term. However, when pushed to confirm that the two child cap would be removed, Alexander said she couldn’t ‘get ahead of the budget’.

Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik: ‘We want the war to end, but not at any price’

President Trump has said that his Ukraine ‘peace plan’ is not his ‘final offer’, as officials gather in Geneva to negotiate a plan that has caused outrage in Ukraine and across Europe. Trump’s document would require Ukraine to give up territory to Russia, and reduce the size of its military. On Sky News, Trevor Phillips told Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik that there was a risk Trump ‘might not be bluffing’, and asked if she and her colleagues would advise President........

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