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A PETULANT George Osborne vowed to press on with cuts to tax credits yesterday despite his detested policy’s progress being thwarted by peers.
The Tory Chancellor’s plan to slash the incomes of 3.3 million families by £1,300 a year on average was twice defeated in the Lords on Monday night.
Letters due to land on doorsteps days before Christmas telling claimants of the cuts have now been delayed, a Downing Street spokeswoman conceded.
New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY