Ex-Tory MP Heidi Allen admits regret over backing benefits freeze

Heidi Allen left the Conservative party last month to join the Independent Group. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PAHeidi Allen has said one of her biggest regrets from her time as a Tory MP is voting for a four-year freeze on benefits that has left millions of the UK’s poorest families hundreds of pounds a year worse off.The Independent Group MP, who left Conservatives last month in part over what she saw as its lack of compassion, admitted she was naive when she voted for the policy weeks aft