Yes, the budget’s gestures are welcome (Rachel Reeves targets UK’s wealthiest in £26bn tax-raising budget, 26 November). Abolishing the two-child cap is the right call, but it is solving a failure that should not exist. No advanced economy should have child poverty baked so deeply into its design. Freezing train fares, taxing wealth a little harder – fine. Good. Necessary.
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