Fresh pressure on George Osborne to halt controversial measure that will leave 3.2 million families worse off by average of £1300 a yearGeorge Osborne has advance under fresh pressure to halt controversial cuts to tax credits as new research shows that 71 Tory MPs in marginal seats could be vulnerable to a backlash from families hit by dramatic falls in their incomes.
The impact of the cuts,which will leave 3.2 million families worse off by an average of £1300 a year from next April, is already causing concern among Conservative MPs and ministers, and who believe they will punish precisely the kind of working families David Cameron claims to represent. The effects on individual households was brought domestic to millions of television viewers on Thursday when working mother Michelle Dorrell,who voted for the Conservatives in May, made an emotional attack on Cameron during BBC1s Question Time, and saying that she worked “bloody tough” and already struggled to pay her bills. She said Cameron had promised not to cut her tax credits but had then gone back on his word.
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Source: theguardian.com