In a letter to Tory MPs, Chancellor Osborne admits something about the Emergency Budget that he was loathe to admit at the time (despite the IFS's verdict that it was regressive): the poor got whacked.reports Paul Waugh in the Standard.
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2010/10/osbornes-message-to-troops-dont-panic.html "I made £11 billion of savings from other parts of the welfare system, many of which affected people on lower incomes," Osborne says.