Sentences with phrase «cut to disability benefits»

Nadine Dorries lashed out at Iain Duncan Smith tonight for claiming to have resigned on a point of principle, just days after begging her to vote for cuts to disability benefits.

Nicky Morgan last night signalled a screeching U-turn on the cruel cuts to disability benefit announced in George Osborne's budget - saying a string of things that are demonstrably untrue.

However, it was the juxtaposition of the proposed cuts to disability benefits with the cuts to CGT, corporation tax and the raising of the threshold at which people pay the higher rate of income tax that caused a threatened rebellion among Conservative MPs and led to Duncan Smith's resignation.

Owen Smith, Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: «Nicky Morgan was either too ashamed to admit cuts to disability benefits are Tory policy, or she was signalling the start of a sharp U-turn.

Ex-chancellor wades into row over cuts to disability benefits, saying too many areas of public spending have been ringfenced

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has resigned from his Government position in protest to the planned cuts to disability benefits.

Mr Duncan Smith, who quit the Government in March in protest at cuts to disability benefits, also hit back at David Cameron for claiming the issue of Turkish EU membership was not on the ballot paper.

Corbyn argued that the government was «cruel and callous» and that cuts to disability benefits denied people of their dignity.

It comes just days after the government pushed through a # 30 - a-week cut to another disability benefit, Employment Support Allowance (ESA).

George Osborne will raise an eye - popping # 4.4 BILLION from his cruel cut to disability benefit - and use it to fund a tax cut for the rich.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith said: «Nicky Morgan was either too ashamed to admit cuts to disability benefits are Tory policy or she was signalling the start of a sharp u-turn.

However, the Budget 2016 was anything but dull, or uneventful, as it contained some surprises, and even caused a complete furore in Parliament with the subsequent resignation of Ian Duncan Smith over cuts to Disability Benefits.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries said Mr Duncan Smith had begged her to support his cuts to disability benefits only weeks before

Duncan Smith resigned as work and pensions secretary on Friday, citing the cuts to disability benefits contained in the Budget as «a compromise too far».

Mr Goldsmith's party yesterday also confirmed it would go ahead with cuts to another disability benefit — Personal Independence Payment.

The Chancellor has also been forced into embarrassing U-turns over a planned # 1.3 billion cut to disability benefits this year and # 4.4 billion of tax credit reductions in last year's Autumn Statement.

The worst ratings are for the cuts to disability benefits for people reliant on aids or appliances.