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Liz Kendall says government needs to ‘do the sums’ before scrapping two-child benefit cap – UK politics live

Work and pensions secretary speaks as Keir Starmer faces first potential rebellion in Commons over the policy

Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen are expected to meet in the autumn after provisional plans for this week for a first face-to-face conversation about the prime minister’s desired reset in UK-EU relations were put on the back burner.

The prime minister was keen for a meeting with Von der Leyen as she had to skip both the recent summit in NATO and last week’s European Political Community summit in Blenheim in the UK.

Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Work and pensions secretary speaks as Keir Starmer faces first potential rebellion in Commons over the policyKeir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen are expected to meet in the autumn after provisional plans for this week for a first face-to-face conversation about the prime minister’s desired reset in UK-EU relations were put on the back burner.The prime minister was keen for a meeting with Von der Leyen as she had to skip both the recent summit in NATO and last week’s European Political Community summit in Blenheim in the UK. Continue reading…