Rachel Reeves has insisted that her decision to lift the two child benefit cap was not fuelled by a desire to appease her backbenchers.

This measure, which cost around £3billion a year, was a demand of the Labour backbenchers and something the government said it could not afford last year.

She said: "Look, I'm a Labour chancellor. I want to reduce child poverty. I make no apologies for that."

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When Sir Trevor Phillips asked why a woman with two children should pay to support the children of another woman who has more than two, Ms Reeves again speaks about wanting to reduce child poverty.

She also stated that she would rather talk about families than women when it comes to parenting children.

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