Rachel Reeves: Labour may be unable to scrap bedroom tax and child benefit cap
by Emily Dugan from World news | The Guardian on (#6D3CJ)
Shadow chancellor says dire economic inheritance' would prevent party from reversing Tory welfare policies
Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out a Labour government keeping the bedroom tax and abolishing the two-child cap on benefits because of the dire economic inheritance" it would face.
The shadow chancellor said it was a sad truth" that if the party came to power it would not be able to undo all the welfare policies it had opposed in parliament.
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