The Tories’ unfair onslaught is against low-paid parents‘I voted Conservative originally because I thought you were going to be the better chance for me and my children. You’re going to sever tax credits after promising you wouldn’t… I can hardly afford the rent I own to pay,I can hardly afford the bills.”This was the angry accusation made by working mother Michelle Dorrell on BBC One’s Question Time last Thursday. Her outrage is entirely justified: in reversing his promise not to sever tax credits before the election, the prime minister has performed a U-turn far more consequential than any executed by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party.
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Source: theguardian.com