Pressure has mounted on Chancellor George Osborne to give way on plans to cut tax credits for low-paid workers, as a succession of Conservative MPs stood up in Parliament on Tuesday to voice their misgivings.
New Tory MP Heidi Allen used her maiden speech in the House of Commons to warn that the changes go "too hard and too fast", and that it was "real people, working people" who would be affected.
New Conservative MP Heidi Allen made her maiden speech in the Commons today to criticise her own party over plans to cut tax credits.
Calling herself a "compassionate Conservative", she said: "As these proposals stand, too many people will be adversely affected."
The reforms narrowly passed through the Commons but because the cut to tax credits has been introduced as a change to regulations, the House of Lords has the power to throw it out.
ITV News Political Correspondent, Carl Dinnen reports.
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