MORE Tory MPs rebelled against George Osborne’s tax credits cuts yesterday, branding them “a blunt instrument” that have left the Tories in the “wilderness.”

Tory Stephen McPartland led the criticism in a Commons debate on the cuts, saying he had voted against them because he “could not believe the impact of the changes had been understood” by the Chancellor.

Plans to slash the benefit which keeps the low-paid out of poverty were already in disarray after the government tried to sneak through the measure — only for the House of Lords to reject it on Monday.