Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering raising taxes on online gambling, after former prime minister Gordon Brown called for an increase in the levies to help fund efforts to tackle child poverty, including lifting the two-child cap on child-related welfare benefits.

Regardless of the motivation, 70% of Britons would support an increase in taxes on online gambling, with just 16% opposed.

Such a move would have broad support, with 79% of Lib Dems, 77% of Labour voters, 71% of Conservatives and 61% of Reform UK voters in favour of an increase in gambling taxes.

When a relationship ends, untangling your lives from one another cannot always be an easy task, with the world of social media presenting a new question – unfollow or keep following?

44% of Britons think people should unfollow their ex on social media after they break-up, while 14% think they generally should not. However, 42% of the public weren’t sure of the right answer.

Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not a question with a strong generational divide, with 40-46% of all age groups feeling a former couple should unfollow each other and 11-18% thinking they should not.

Whether a baby is a boy or a girl can be a big deal for parents-to-be: not just do some host gender reveal parties, but some might even harbour strong preferences for the sex of their future child.

But few would want a family exclusively of one gender. If Britons had two children, 57% would want a combination of one boy and one girl, compared to 8% each who would rather have both boys or both girls.

Nonetheless, a preference for girls is concentrated among women, 11% of whom see two girls as their preferred combination of two children, relative to 5% of men. This particularly true of young women – 21% of 18-24 year old women would rather both of their hypothetical children were girls.

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