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When was the decision made for the 4billion creamed from tax credits would be among the 12 billion of welfare savings?
It wasn't in the manifesto....

'In his Today programme interview Matthew Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister, suggested that peers would trigger a constitutional crisis if they voted to delay the implementation of the tax credit cuts. (See 9.10am.) Here are some of the other points he made.

Hancock said that Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary, has said that it would be unprecedented for the Lords to block or delay the tax credit cuts.
On this programme on Friday, Robin Butler has said that the three blocking measures are all unprecedented, the conventions say that the Lords does not block financial measures that effect the budget of the country. And so, yes of course that means the finance bill, but it also means things like this that are over £4bn of public spending. This is obviously a financial matter. But don’t take it from me, you know, take it from Robin Butler who is possibly one of the greatest constitutional experts in the country.'

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-politics-live