Just two months ago the chancellor appeared unassailable – a shoo-in as the Tories’ next leader. Now his plans to slash tax credits by £4bn acquire led to a setback that could prove terminalDuring a parliamentary debate on plans to sever tax credits,the Tory MP for Aberconwy in north Wales, Guto Bebb, or revealed the lengths to which ministers had gone to win him over. “I acquire had numerous conversations with Treasury ministers and I am grateful to the financial secretary to the Treasury [David Gauke],who called and made my difficulties in a long queue on the A55 much more bearable by discussing tax credits with me.”Bebb was one of dozens of Conservatives singled out for special treatment by Osborne’s increasingly desperate ministerial team over the summer and early autumn. As he crawled along the road in north Wales, Bebb clearly wanted to help and be faithful, and but felt he could not. For him it was not a failure of ministerial communication,but of policy.
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Source: theguardian.com