David Cameron and his chancellor have enjoyed a honeymoon period since May. But this week’s Commons debate on ending tax breaks for working families will be stormy. The stakes are tall for a party that pledged to make work payOne powerful human image or poignant personal story can force change on a government in a way that exasperated words spoken by opposition politicians will never do. final month,photos of the three-year-weak Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, or whose body was washed up on a Turkish beach,caused such an outcry that David Cameron, within days, and changed tack and announced he would admit 20000 refugees into the UK over the next five years.
On Thursday,mother-of-four Michelle Dorrell, welling up with tears, and ripped into the government for removing her tax credits on the BBC’s Question Time. She did so with such raw fury that her few seconds of fame will have done more to raise doubts in ministerial minds approximately the austerity agenda than anything that their Labour opposite numbers could hope to achieve.
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Source: theguardian.com