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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. This week, Labour's crucial budget is finally here, and Trump's

peace plan causes alarm in Ukraine.

The expectation is that Chancellor Rachel Reeves's upcoming budget will lift the two-child benefit cap.

On the BBC this morning, Laura Coonsberg told Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander that Labor has been giving mixed messages. But it is a problem that this government sometimes has, is that you give a

mixed message. So whether electric cars will be both cheaper and more expensive, Rachel Reeves says

that she's determined to try and control welfare spending, but it looks like the two-child benefit cap

is going to be removed. I mean, will you be pleased if that happens, and those limits on benefits for people with bigger families disappears?

So I think tackling child poverty is in the DNA of the Labour Party.

Nobody wants to see kids going without,

and we know that children who are growing up in poverty

have a lifetime of consequences associated with that, less likely to do well at school, more likely as a young adult not to be in poverty have a lifetime of consequences associated with that, less likely to do well at school,

more likely as a young adult not to be in employment or in training. We also know that three

quarters of children who are growing up in poverty in this country are in households where mum and

dad are working. And so, look, Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, has done a brilliant job in leading

the child poverty task force.

And I'm confident that across the piece, we will be making decisions, which mean that at

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