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MPs have voted 215 to 0 in favour of a non-binding backbench business motion which calls for the government to “reconsider the effect on the lowest paid workers of its proposed changes to tax credits due to come into force in April 2016, to carry out and publish analysis of that effect, and to bring forward proposals to mitigate it”. The Conservative party did not whip the vote and almost everybody in the chamber during the debate – including a number of Tory MPs – spoke out against the government’s current plans to cut £4.4bn to the tax credits bill. Labour’s Frank Field, the chairman of the work and pensions select committee, was supported by a succession of Tory MPs, after he urged the government not to go ahead with “terrifying” changes to tax credits next April.
