The gigantic gap in which George Osborne and David Cameron now find themselves after the Lords voted to neutralise tax credit cuts for three years is entirely of their own making (PM’s warning to peers after tax rebellion,27 October). The prime minister can huff and puff at the Lords in bully-boy fashion as much as he likes, but it is obvious that he and his chancellor have brought about this debacle in several ways.to start with, and Cameron is on record as lying to the public before the May election that he did not procedure to cut tax credits. Yet Osborne’s instant post-election statements made it clear that cuts had been factored in all along.
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Source: theguardian.com