Tory MP Heidi Allen wants tax credit rethink

Conservative MP Heidi Allen has called on her party to rethink their position on cuts to tax credits.

She suggested ministers were losing sight of the difficulties of working people in their "single-minded determination to achieve a surplus".

In her maiden speech in the Commons during a Labour debate on tax credits, Ms Allen, the MP for South Cambridgeshire, said she supported the principle of reducing reliance on the state but feared the way the government was going about it was all wrong.