Pensions minister Webb caught by secret recordings

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The coalition government's cuts to child benefit for anyone earning over £44,000 is ‘a worry' and answers from the Treasury are ‘not good enough', pensions minister Steve Webb has been caught saying.

The minister was recorded in his surgery suggesting the cut is too harsh and needs refining, and he also hints at Liberal Democrat opposition to the new income limits. Webb was secretly recorded...

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