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Cameron refuses tax credit answer six times straight

DAVID CAMERON evaded a straight question about the impact of Tory tax credit cuts an astonishing six times yesterday.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asked: “Can he now guarantee to the House and to the wider country that nobody will be worse off next year as a result of cuts to working tax credits?”

Mr Corbyn was grilling the Tory PM after the unpopular policy was twice defeated in the House of Lords on Monday.

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