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Conservative MP’s argue against cuts to Universal Credit (including IDS!!!)

Paul_Treloar_AgeUK
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You read that headline right!!?? Guardian are reporting that:

Conservative backbenchers, including the former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, are preparing to campaign against £3bn of planned cuts to in-work benefits, in a fresh sign of the pressure Theresa May faces from within her own party.

Veterans of the backlash against the deep cuts to tax credits George Osborne was forced to withdraw last year are gearing up to put pressure on his successor, Philip Hammond, in the run-up to November’s autumn statement.

They would like the chancellor, who has said he will “reset” tax and spending policy in the wake of the Brexit vote, to ease the hardship of families who are set to receive significantly lower handouts under the new universal credit (UC) system.

Think I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole…..Theresa May faces Tory backlash over planned cuts to in-work benefits

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We have always been at war with Oceania…

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And now some of them (well alright, 4 of them) have found their souls and want to reverse the cuts to ESA WRAC as well….

Four Conservative MPs are to join the SNP to call for a House of Commons debate on postponing cuts to disability benefits.

SNP MP Neil Gray will apply for a debate on the cuts at the backbench business committee, backed by Conservative MPs David Burrowes, Heidi Allen, Jeremy Lefroy and Stephen McPartland, who have led calls from the Tory backbenches for a rethink of the plans.

Burrowes said he had spoken to many colleagues who had concerns and suggested he could try to force through changes by amending the finance bill following next year’s Budget.

Tory MPs join call to postpone disability benefit cuts

Whoops, I’m sure this was a mistake then…

David Burrowes voted to remove the “work-related activity component” from the Employment and Support Allowance.

At least the other 3 seemed to absent themselves from the chamber for the vote on that policy proposal.

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one Conservative MP’s view - from Heidi Allen’s blog ‘It’s time to take the shackles off Universal Credit’-

.... we need to help boost low family incomes – which is more important than ever as we enter a potentially economically turbulent post-Brexit world. And there is only one way to do that. We must give the Universal Credit poverty-fighting machine its mojo back. We can do this by either restoring the allowance (the ‘Work Allowance’) for how much people can earn before Universal Credit starts to be withdrawn, or we can look at the embedded taper rates that power the whole machine…