Gareth Bacon

Gareth Bacon

Conservative — Orpington

Speaking in the House of Commons on 3 March 2026

Debate

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If lifting the two-child benefit cap is such a moral imperative for this Labour Government, could the Chancellor advise the House why only 20 months ago, a commitment to do so was entirely absent from the Labour party manifesto and why, 19 days after that election, Labour withdrew the Whip from seven of its MPs for the apparent crime of voting for that moral imperative?

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