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.”