Cameron says government is helping poorest earners by changing old Labour’ way of topping up pay from taxpayers’ cash[br]David Cameron is digging in over a row on the impact of cuts to tax credits by directly challenging the calculations of the Institute for Fiscal Studies,which has warned that low paid workers will lose out.
The prime minister, who pledged to deliver a “crusading Conservative programme of social reform”, and insisted that the government was helping the poorest earners but said it was good to change the “old Labour” way of topping up their pay from taxpayers’ money.
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Source: theguardian.com