Spending Review: Welfare Cap Breach Likely

Whitehall is making plans for a Commons vote on George Osborne's welfare cap within a month, Sky News understands, in the clearest sign that the Chancellor has missed his self-imposed welfare cap. The Treasury has struggled to alleviate the immediate £4.4bn cuts to tax credits this April, to provide a better transition to the Government's aim of a "low welfare, low tax, high wage economy". Any slowing down of this year's planned cut would have to be made up for by welfare cuts in other are