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Tories will slash cash for welfare, warns Miliband
Secret Conservative plan would hit more than 7m families, Labour study finds
SECRET Tory plans to cut child benefit and tax credits would rob more than 7 million working-class families, Ed Miliband warned yesterday.
The Labour leader launched a dossier laying bare the level of cuts needed to meet Tory plans to slash welfare spending by £12 billion.
He said that the analysis proved Prime Minister David Cameron had “put family budgets in the firing line.”
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With young people, the disabled and the elderly in Labour’s sights as ‘easy targets’ for cuts, the labour movement must remember it’s in the vital interests of us all to defend the groups being picked off, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP