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The Resolution Foundation think tank says axing the policy would cost £3.5bn a year.

It comes after the coffee chain announced in February it was axing 1,100 jobs and simplifying its US menu to help flagging sales in its home market.

The 1,500-signature petition said the axing of GST on food - currently set at 5% for the majority of goods and services in Jersey - would help ease the cost of living for islanders.

Bayrou suggested axing Easter Monday and 8 May, a day that commemorates the Allied victory at the end of World War Two in Europe.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimates that axing the two child benefit cap would cost the government about £3.4bn a year and would lift 500,000 children out of relative poverty.