With the announcement that the two-child benefit cap will be scrapped in full from next April, a member of the Question Time audience in Paisley, Scotland, asked: “Is lifting the two-child benefit cap fair to taxpayers?”.

Panellists discussed the matter, featuring the SNP’s Stephen Flynn, Labour’s Anas Sarwar, Conservative Russell Findlay, Reform UK’s Lord Malcolm Offord, and journalist Angela Haggerty.

Catch up with the whole of the debate with BBC Question Time on iPlayer and Sounds now.

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Has the Ebola outbreak exposed a weakness in how the pharmaceutical industry works? BBC News talks to Professor Chas Bountra, he specialises in drug discovery and was formerly Vice President and Head of Biology at Glaxo-Smith-Kline.

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The Trump administration has been defending its seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. In a dramatic video shared by …

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Thousands of civilians along the Thailand-Cambodia border are fleeing after an escalation of violence between the two countries.

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How can robots help astronauts survive in space?

The National Space Industry Hub in Sydney, Australia, is home to some of the most innovative startups on the scene.

Reporting for BBC Tech Now, Nick Kwek visits the hub to explore if robots can lead the way in space exploration.

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