Recalcitrant Lords defy tax credit cuts

For the first time in a century, the House of Lords controversially voted to delay the implementation of George Osborne’s tax credit cuts. Emily Hohler reports.

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George Osborne: forced into a rethink

The House of Lords controversially voted to delay the implementation of George Osborne's tax credit cuts, the first time in a century that the upper house has defied the elected Commons on a financial matter. This was a "clear breach" of the Parliament Act, says The Daily Telegraph. To argue otherwise on the basis that the tax credit cuts were not formally designated as a financial measure is "procedural casuistry". In response, Lord Strathclyde is to chair a "rapid review" of the relationship between the two houses of parliament.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.