The tories are revolting.
A Conservative MP has used her maiden speech in the House of Commons to lambast George Osborne for planning to penalise low-paid workers with cuts to tax credits.
In a pointed address, Heidi Allen said the cuts fail David Cameron’s “family test” and are driven by the chancellor’s mistaken decision to run an overall budget surplus.
The MP for Cambridgeshire South said she had declined to make her maiden speech until now because she saw no point in doing so because both sides are “firmly married to their respective positions”.
Allen has asked questions since her election but had not delivered a full speech until a Labour debate on tax credits on Tuesday. She said: “It is right that people are encouraged to strive for self reliance and to find work that pays for their independence from the state. But I worry that our single-minded determination to run a budget surplus is betraying who we are. I know true Conservatives have compassion running through their veins.”
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