The Chancellor will slash tax credits for millions of low-paid workers today without making bosses pay more to cushion the blow. His targets aren’t work-shy, they’re the bleary eyed kitchen porter on the early morning bus or the exhausted cleaner turning out the office lights. Depriving their families of an average of £1,400 a year each shows just how much Mr Osborne understands budgeting on the breadline. If we raise a national outcry, we can get him to change his mind.

His boss, the Prime Minister, wants to be remembered as a compassionate Conservative. He says he wants to govern as a ‘One Nation’ Tory, not a Thatcherite. Let’s make clear to Cameron how he’ll be remembered if he lets his Chancellor punish the poor rather than require the bosses who exploit them to offer a fair level of pay.

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