Labour rebel: 'There were things I was over the moon with'

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Labour MP Clive Lewis, a backbench rebel from the left of the party, says that there were "things I was over the moon with" in Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Budget but that he regrets that the government hadn't listened to backbench MPs sooner. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I mean look there were things in the budget I was over the moon with so the

00:03ending of the two-child benefit cap was brilliant it will make a massive

00:06difference to thousands of my constituents thousands of children my

00:10constituency it should never been put in place it's long overdue that it was

00:14removed I wish we'd done it without some of the heartache and suspensions that

00:19have taken place and I think what it should show to the leadership of this

00:23government is that sometimes you should listen to the entirety of the

00:28parliamentary Labour Party we do actually have our fingers on the pulse of our

00:31constituencies and I think ultimately they have listened and I'm grateful for

00:36that

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