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Tory Tax Credit Civil War Erupts
Think tank warns ‘wrong-headed’ Osborne over cuts

CIVIL war broke out among Tories over tax credits yesterday as the party’s oldest think tank warned controversial cuts will “harm workers” — and its election chances.

The Bow Group branded Chancellor George Osborne “wrong headed” over his plans to cut the benefit for low wage workers in a new report.

And they admitted that robbing families of up to £3,000 a year will do massive damage to the Tories’ claim to be the “workers’ party.”

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