Boris Johnson avoids showdown on universal credit cut as rebel amendment rejected
The Independent says Boris Johnson has avoided a potentially humiliating Commons showdown on cuts to universal credit — just weeks before claimants’ payments are reduced.
The Independent understands the speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has not accepted the rebel amendment put forward by Conservative MPs, including the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, calling for the £20-per-week uplift to be maintained.
While a defeat would have been non-binding on the government, the MPs had sought to use legislation on the annual uprating of pensions being debated on Monday to highlight the controversial issue in a Commons vote just three weeks before the cut takes effect.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-universal-credit-cuts-b1923389.html
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