Bristol MP to resign if benefit cuts go ahead

Conservative MP, Charlotte Leslie says she will resign from her post as Parliamentary Private Secretary if the Government goes ahead with plans to cut disability payments.

Leslie who is the MP for Bristol North West took to twitter last night to voice her concerns over her party's plans. In a reply to another twitter user she said she would resign and vote against the cuts.

It comes after the shock resignation of Iain Duncan Smith as Work and Pensions Secretary.

Duncan Smith quit his post on Friday calling the benefit cuts "a compromise too far." But this was refuted by the Prime Minister who questioned his colleagues reasoning saying he knew the government was going to drop the current version of proposed cuts anyway.