Reform UK MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick voted with Labour to scrap the two-child benefit cap, it has emerged. It is believed that the pair ended up with Sir Keir Starmer’s party in the aye lobby yesterday during the Bill’s second reading.
Ms Braverman and Mr Jenrick got on their phones trying to get instructions from Farage as to whether they should be there or not, a source told Sky News’s Beth Rigby, and they tried to leave but got trapped as the doors were locked.
Reform has confirmed that this happened, adding that it was a “genuine mistake” and neither MP registered a vote. All other Reform MPs voted against the legislation.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: “They’re Nigel’s problem now.”
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