BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 08:10:00
Conservative mps come out and say, we cannot stand by cutting the 45p rate at the same time as potentially freezing benefits or at least not increasing them as much as inflation. you had michael gove come out and say it was a wrong priority. grant shapps, the former cabinet minister said he did not think these plans would get through parliament. there was a growing sense that this plan was doomed, and the government had two options, one was to face down its mps and say i am not backing down here, this is a confidence issue, you have to back me, or you will bring down the government, orto me, o...