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CRIES of “shame” went up in Parliament yesterday as MPs heard the heart-rending stories of people set to be plunged further into poverty if George Osborne cuts tax credits today.
More than four million families depending on tax credits — 70 per cent of them in work — are braced for bad news when the Chancellor delivers his first all-Tory Budget.
Labour shadow Treasury secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move would wreck Tory claims to be the “workers’ party” and “prove whose side they are really on.”
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP