“RAC|ST” ROW ERUPTS! 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴 SLAMS Critics of Benefits Plan Amid Two-Child Cap Abolition

Rachel Reeves hit out at ‘racist’ criticism of her decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap today.

The Chancellor accused Nigel Farage of only wanting white people to get welfare after he warned Labour‘s policy means money for ‘huge numbers of foreign-born people’.

The Bill to end the cap is being formally introduced into Parliament after the move was announced in the November Budget – alongside another barrage of tax rises.

The Government bowed to huge pressure from Labour MPs and ministers despite initially warning about the £3billion a year cost.

Supporters say removing the limit will lift around 450,000 children out of poverty by 2030.

Rachel Reeves accused Nigel Farage of only wanting white people to get welfare after he warned Labour’s policy will benefit ‘huge numbers of foreign-born people’

Mr Farage has said he supports lifting the cap, but only for ‘British working parents’

Keir Starmer is going on the attack by accusing Reform and the Tories of a ‘cruel alliance to push kids who need help back into poverty’.

And speaking to The Guardian, Ms Reeves suggested Mr Farage’s comments about ‘foreign-born’ benefits recipients were racist.

‘I don’t really care what colour a kid’s skin is – some deserve to be in poverty and some don’t? That makes me pretty angry,’ she said.

‘Does Nigel Farage want to go around and say – “White? Yeah you can have the money. Black? No I’m sorry it’s not for you.” What sort of country does he think we are?

‘If you’re the mum next door who works in the NHS, has lived here all her life, her kids lived here all their life, but she was born somewhere else – we’re saying that family deserves to grow up in poverty whereas the one next door doesn’t? That’s not the sort of country I believe in.’

The jibe drew a furious response from Reform policy chief Zia Yusuf, who insisted it amounted to ‘ethno-nationalism’.

He posted on X: ‘She believes only white people can be British. She’s accused Nigel Farage of racism for wanting to keep the 2 child cap in place for everyone except British-born families, equating ‘foreign-born’ with ‘non-white.’

Conservative shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride said the ‘most effective way to tackle child poverty is to build a stronger economy’.

He said: ‘Labour’s approach does the opposite. Because Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves do not have the backbone to stand up to their left-wing MPs, they are hiking welfare spending, paid for with higher taxes which are killing growth and costing jobs.’

The jibe drew a furious response from Reform policy chief Zia Yusuf, who insisted it amounted to ‘ethno-nationalism’

Keir Starmer is going on the attack by accusing Reform and the Tories of a ‘cruel alliance to push kids who need help back into poverty’

A Reform UK spokesman said: ‘We are a party that is pro-family and pro-children.

‘This Labour Government is introducing a Bill that is going to benefit huge numbers of foreign-born people.

‘Our policy prioritises British working parents.’

Mr Farage has previously said his party would also abolish the two-child limit, but later clarified this would only be for families where both parents were British and working full-time.

Out of the 470,000 households affected by the cap, only 3,700 have two adults working full-time – less than 0.8 per cent of the total.

Ms Reeves shattered Labour‘s manifesto pledges on tax with £30billion of increases at the Budget.

At the same time, she announced the axing of the two-child benefit cap as part of a spending spree that saw projected welfare spending rise £16billion a year.

Kemi Badenoch branded the package ‘a Budget for Benefits Street, paid for by working people’.

Work and Pensions Secretary Mr McFadden defended the cost of the policy as he toured broadcast studios this morning.

He told Sky News: ‘We came into office with a manifesto commitment to reduce child poverty. We did it the last time we were in power. Child poverty has risen by about 900,000 since 2010.

‘I don’t see this just as a cash transfer in terms of that £3billion, I see it as an investment in children’s future, because we know that children from the poorest families will end up doing less well at school, less than a quarter of them get five good GCSEs, we know they’re four times more likely to have mental health problems later in life.’