The Conservative MP for Stevenage says his party must find a way to protect families who should be rewarded by a fair welfare systemIt was late in the evening of Monday 14 September and the vote on the government’s cuts to tax credits was to be staged the next day. The atmosphere was febrile, battle lines drawn and I was approximately to walk into the chancellor’s office to thing to the impact this £4.4bn saving would have on more than three million families.
The only problem: hardly anyone outside of the Palace of Westminster was interested. The memoir of the day was Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader over the weekend. The Conservative party could not believe its luck – Labour was in shock and the media were distracted.
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Source: theguardian.com