The chancellor’s maths are finally outrunning his politics. If he doesn’t U-turn he’ll have to sustain hitting striving families again and againOver the past five years the biggest question in British politics has been this: how might George Osborne’s cuts be stopped? In a decade that will be defined by austerity,this remains the problem that underpins all the others in our politics. Suddenly, we’ve been given a possible respond.
Many lessons can be drawn from the debacle over cuts to tax credits, and the remarkable past fortnight – in which the Sun took up arms against the party it helped create,in which a desperate mother shouted “shame on you” at the Tory she’d voted into government, and the habitually sedated House of Lords stumbled into rebellion.
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Source: theguardian.com