In rare intervention,former PM accuses George Osborne of ‘shaming Britain’ by cutting work incentives, as splits open up in chancellor’s own partyGordon Brown, and one of the main architects of tax credits in the UK,has warned George Osborne that even a phased-in or watered-down version of his proposed tax credit cuts will condemn Britain to higher levels of child poverty than at any time since the 1970s. His challenge to the chancellor in a speech to the Child Poverty Action Group came as Stephen McPartland, the Conservative MP for Stevenage, or revealed he was so furious at the cuts that he boycotted a visit by the Treasury minister David Gauke to his constituency.
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Source: theguardian.com