Nigel Farage donned his beret and declared himself the workers' champion as he launched Reform's demand to restore the pensioners' winter fuel payment and lift the two-child limit on universal credit.
After Keir Starmer announced a U-turn on winter fuel last week, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, today confirmed that lifting the two-child limit is also "certainly something we are considering".
David Maddox, our political editor, writes that Farage sees an opportunity opening up to the "left" of the Labour government, hence his recent support for nationalising British Steel and now for more benefits for large families, partly on the grounds that many universal credit claimants are in (low-paid) work.
I have written about how Labour should fight back: not by calling Farage a privately educated stockbroker but by emphasising his Thatcherite beliefs and Liz Truss economics.
As Archie Mitchell reports, Labour was assisted by economists, including from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, wasting no time in tearing Farage's tax-and-spending numbers to shreds.
Hardly surprising, when Farage himself said: "You can probably argue that at no point in the history of any form of government has anybody ever thought the numbers added up."
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