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Osborne is pretending white is black on tax credits

Here's Stephen Tall's post, published on The Times's Red Box blog yesterday, on the Tories' plans to cut tax credits - and how the Lib Dems are opposing them. "We don't support them. We don't support them in the future." So protested an angry George Osborne in April when his deputy at the Treasury, Lib Dem Danny Alexander, claimed the Conservatives had secret plans for welfare cuts, including slashing child tax credits.

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24 Oct 2015
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3rd peer quits Labour in House of Lords

In protest against Corbyn's "terribly damaging" propoposals - under him "I don't believe we are ever going to win an election" - Lord Grabiner added to Lord Adonis and Lord Warner in no longer taking the Labour whip

24 Oct 2015
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