Osborne Admits Disability Cuts Were A Mistake

George Osborne has confirmed disability benefit cuts will not go ahead as he faced down MPs in Parliament for the first time since his Budget unravelled. The Chancellor admitted he had made a mistake by including plans for £4.4bn of cuts to the Personal Independence Payments in his Budget but said he had listened and they would now be dropped. And he added that the Government had "no further plans to make welfare savings", which would now leave a multibillion-pound hole in Mr Osborne's ple