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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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