United Kingdom: Labour MPs Push for Higher Gambling Taxes to End Two-Child Benefit Cap

Rachel Reeves, United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, is facing mounting pressure from her own backbenches as more than 100 Labour MPs demand that gambling companies pay higher taxes to help finance the abolition of the two-child benefit cap. The push, which aligns with proposals advanced by Gordon Brown and the Institute for Public Policy […]

Sep 26, 2025 - 08:25
United Kingdom: Labour MPs Push for Higher Gambling Taxes to End Two-Child Benefit Cap

Rachel Reeves, United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, is facing mounting pressure from her own backbenches as more than 100 Labour MPs demand that gambling companies pay higher taxes to help finance the abolition of the two-child benefit cap. The push, which aligns with proposals advanced by Gordon Brown and the Institute for Public Policy […]