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Labour Deputy Hopeful Powell Attacks Welfare 'Errors'

Lucy Powell challenges Labour's welfare policies, highlighting unforced government errors and advocating clearer commitment to scrapping the two-child benefit cap to address child poverty.

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Lucy Powell also hits back at claims she is running to be deputy leader as a "proxy" for Andy Burnham.

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Lucy Powell says Labour’s ‘unforced errors’ have cost the party support

The deputy leadership candidate said the Government needs to be ‘clearer’ about wanting to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

·London, United Kingdom
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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
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