Calls for McVey to resign over misleading MPs on welfare changes

MPs accuse work and pensions secretary of deception over watchdog report on reformsAmyas Morse’s letter to Esther McVeyEsther McVey is facing calls to resign after issuing an apology for misleading parliament about the government’s faltering welfare changes in an apparent breach of ministerial code.The work and pensions secretary was accused of employing “mega-Trumpisms” to deceive MPs when she claimed that Whitehall’s independent spending watchdog had called for th