By bizn_fun 
While the world looks to the US, Greenland, and Venezuela, the government is keen to bring some attention to their domestic agenda.
But Rachel Reeves may have put her foot in it.
Labour has launched an attack on the Conservative Party and Reform UK’s positions on the two-child benefit cap, claiming Reform’s position is racist and a policy based on the colour of people’s skin.
In an interview with The Guardian, Reeves said: “Does Nigel Farage want to go around and say: ‘White? Yeah, you can have the money. Black? No, I’m sorry, it’s not for you.’ What sort of country does he think we are?”
Reform’s Zia Yusuf hit back at the chancellor, accusing her of ethnonationalism.
Yusuf said: “She equates Britishness with race, according to her only white people are truly British.
“I wonder what Shabana Mahmood, David Lammy think about this racism from Reeves?”
Reform says it would lift the two-child benefit cap for working British citizens, therefore keeping the cap in place for those without British citizenship and/or those who are not working.
The difficulty with the chancellor’s logic is that her quotes could be interpreted as her saying that all Brits are white, and all immigrants are black – something we know to be untrue – and therefore suggesting that black people cannot be British.
This is hopefully not what Rachel Reeves was intending to say, but the suggestion alone many will find deeply offensive.
So why did the chancellor say it?
Labour has been alive to the threat from Reform UK for some time, and they have begun stepping up their political attacks on the insurgent party as its poll lead remains robust.
Labour’s desire to damage Reform is politically savvy, they are opponents after all and this is politics.
But the fact that the chancellor did not see the flawed logic in her argument is somewhat troubling, especially as Labour believes accusations of racism and antisemitism are Farage’s Achilles’ heel.
Speaking at Lobby today, a Downing Street spokesperson was asked about the row and responded: “Every child deserves the best start in life regardless of skin colour.”
“[Universal Credit] is based on residential requirements, not nationality.
“I would go back to the fundamental point, the government inherited a situation where 950,000 children were in poverty.
“Collectively, the government is making changes like school meals and benefit caps to lift 500,000 out of poverty.”