NOW tax wealth, reverse austerity and stop privatisation, Your Party MP Jeremy Corbyn demanded today in response to the Budget.

The former Labour leader congratulated “all those who have tirelessly campaigned to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

“Today, the government admitted it had been keeping thousands of children in poverty for no reason whatsoever.

“Next, tax wealth, reverse austerity and end the privatisation rip-off.”

His Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana, who was removed from the Labour whip for rebelling on the issue last year, said that the government “should have scrapped the two-child benefit cap on day one. Instead, it chose to keep hundreds of thousands of children in avoidable, grinding poverty for a year-and-a-half.

“I’m proud to have lost the Labour whip and left the party that has overseen this performative cruelty.”

Green Party MP Sian Berry said the Budget had not addressed “closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy. Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry?”

And Independent Birmingham Perry Bar MP Ayoub Khan welcomed “the end of the two-child benefit cap, though it comes far too late.

“This Labour government’s delay in removing a deeply damaging, Tory-introduced policy has caused years of unnecessary hardship for so many families in my constituency.”

Fellow Green MP Ellie Chowns said that Ms Reeves’s “decision to cut energy bills by raiding the Warm Homes Plan isn’t a genuine solution to fuel poverty; it’s robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

She added that it was “ridiculous to prioritise short-term headlines at the expense of long-term delivery when costs could be funded by taxing wealth.”