The political opportunism behind Reform UK’s support for abolition of the two-child limit on benefits

By Chris Grover, Professor in Social Policy, Lancaster University

The leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, recently announced that if in government, his party would abolish the two-child limit on benefits. This social security policy restricts the payment of means-tested benefits to the first two children of a family.

Farage explained the announcement as being pro-natalist – intended to encourage a higher birth rate – as well as being “pro-worker”. Farage said that the abolition…

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