Ex-minister Andrew Mitchell says more should be done to lessen impact on low paid and Iain Duncan Smith asks for extra support for those losing outGeorge Osborne is under increasing pressure from his own MPs to soften his tax credit cuts after the former cabinet minister,Andrew Mitchell, urged him to achieve more to “ameliorate” the impact on the low paid.Mitchell insisted that most of the 3 million people due to lose money from April would not be worse off after wage increases, and tax cuts and childcare changes were taken into account.
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Source: theguardian.com