Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and her top Treasury team (Image: Getty Images)

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In a bizarre and unprecedented situation, the details of today's hugely-anticipated Budget announcement were accidentally released early, before the Chancellor rose to speak. The government's independent fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility took responsibility and apologised for the remarkable error.

As expected, Rachel Reeves today announced that the existing two-child benefit limit will be removed. This policy, brought in by the Tories in 2017, currently means families cannot access Universal Credit and Child Tax Credits for any third or subsequent children. Campaigners say this move will take hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. It will

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