MPs step up demands for radical rethink of policy with warning that reductions are too deep and too soonGeorge Osborne may bear to drastically reconsider his cuts to tax credits after a succession of Conservative MPs warned him in the Commons that his measures punished the wrong people and could permanently damage the party’s “reputation for compassion”.[br]In a day-long debate on the cuts,introduced on a cross-party motion, not a single Tory backbencher spoke fully in defence of the proposals, or while at least 10 warned the Treasury front bench that a large scale rethink was required by the autumn statement.
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Source: theguardian.com