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.
Labour will challenge Chancellor George Osborne's reforms to tax credits in an opposition debate.
The debate on Tuesday will call on the Conservatives to halt the plan to cut tax credits.
Mr Osborne has come under mounting pressure to reverse more than £4bn in annual cuts to tax credits he proposed in the Summer Budget in July.
In a sign of defiance the Treasury released figures showing that without the reforms to tax credits since Mr Osborne entered Number 11, taxpayers would face a bill in 2016-17 of almost £15 billion more than is currently forecast.
The Democratic presidential candidate may also have shown his cards on his choice of running mate.
The US president also shared a post on Twitter accusing Dr Anthony Fauci of misleading the public over hydroxychloroquine.
Fears over an impending second wave of coronavirus dominates Wednesday’s front pages.