Rachel Reeves has claimed Nigel Farage’s opposition to the lifting of the two-child benefit cap is based on skin colour. The chancellor’s punchy attack on the Reform UK leader comes as she is set to reveal new legislation to lift the Tory policy in April. It comes a year after Labour insisted on keeping it as as cost-cutting measure, and earning plenty of backlash from its own MPs in the process. Reeves told the Guardian she had delayed removing the cap, meant to help lift 550,000 children out of poverty, until the markets were stable. This U-turn is set to cost the government £3 billion a year by 2029-30. Farage told a press conference on Wednesday that his party will be voting against scrapping the cap, because he was concerned it would benefit “huge numbers of foreign-born people”. The chancellor claimed that effectively suggested some children deserved to be in poverty. She told the newspaper: “I don’t really care what colour a kid’s skin is – some deserve to be in poverty and some don’t? …