Robert Jenrick says Reform UK would restore two-child benefit cap in full | News Politics

Reform UK would restore the two-child benefit cap in full with no carve-outs for British working families, Robert Jenrick is to announce.

It is the party’s second U-turn on the policy, after leader Nigel Farage suggested last year he was planning to scrap it in an effort to encourage people to have more children.

He later shifted to suggest the cap would only be scrapped for British working families – meaning those with two British parents who work full-time.

That approach was still intact at the beginning of this month, when Farage said bringing back the cap for most welfare recipients would help pay for a hospitality VAT cut.

But Jenrick – who was formally handed the role of Reform’s Treasury spokesperson yesterday – will use an event at the City of London today to reveal he was rowing back on that idea.

He will say the move would ‘defuse the benefits bomb set to bankrupt Britain’.

The former Tory immigration minister will tell the press conference: ‘Today, Reform is changing our policy on the two-child cap for Universal Credit.

‘We want to help working families have more children. But right now, we just cannot afford to do so with welfare. So it has to go.

‘And, as Reform’s Shadow Chancellor, I’m ending it. A Reform Government will restore the cap in full.’

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