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Chancellor admits ‘I am asking ordinary people to pay a little more’ as she unveils dozens of tax rises, but finally scraps the much-criticised two-child benefit cap

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Millions more people will be dragged into paying higher income tax after Rachel Reeves bet her political future on a £26bn tax raid on the middle classes in her make-or-break second Budget.