There were dramatic scenes in the House of Lords yesterday, Monday 26th October, as peers voted against the governments plans to cut tax credits. Peers in the House of Lords have voted against tax credit cuts by 289 votes to 272.
Critics of the new legislation suggested that it would leave working families thousands of pounds a year worse off. In Lincolnshire that would mean up to 53,000 families could be affected.
The Chancellor George Osborne says cuts are necessary to control the welfare bill.
Geoff Adams, a lecturer at the University of Lincoln in journalism said “I do not believe it is a constitutional crisis; the House of Lords is perfectly entitled to have a view, it is after all the Second House of Parliament. If they can’t vote on these matters, what are they here for?”