Rachel Reeves vows to fight Reform and Tories' plot to restore two-child benefit limit

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves vows to fight Reform and Tories' plot to restore two-child benefit limitChancellor Rachel Reeves said it was her aim to ensure no political party would 'dare go into an election with such an unpopular policy' as bringing back the cruel measureCommentsNewsAshley Cowburn Deputy Political Editor14:39, 14 Apr 2026Updated 14:48, 14 Apr 2026Reeves vows to keep fighting for the two-child benefit limitRachel Reeves has vowed to fight to ensure the two-child benefit limit remains scrapped and can never be restored by Reform UK or the Tories.‌The Chancellor said it was her aim to make sure no political party would "dare go into an election with such an unpopular policy" as bringing back the cruel measure. It comes after the two-child benefit limit was finally axed earlier this month in a move the government estimates will lift 450,000 kids out of poverty.‌The policy - which restricted Universal Credit to the first two children in a family - was ushered in by austerity-era Chancellor George Osborne and was blamed for tapping kids in poverty. But both Nigel Farage's Reform UK and Kemi Badenoch's Tories have pledged to reinstate the two-child benefit limit in full.‌In comments to a reception in No11 Downing Street to mark the scrapping of the policy, Ms Reeves said: "Now that we've achieved this, we need to make sure this policy sticks. For as long as we have a Labour government, this will last. But it is still politically contestable and it is still a political football.""I want to make sure we don't just sort of tick this off and say job done. We've got to carry on fighting for what we believe in to make sure this policy lasts so that no government and no party would campaign at any election to get rid of a policy that has made so much difference and that I hope that we can make policy that has wider public support so that no political party would dare go into an election with such an unp...