PMQs: some revealing exchanges from Cameron on tax credits, broadband and ‘the vow’

In PMQs today, there was no sense of the drama going on outside in Central Lobby as disability campaigners attempted to enter the Chamber. But the exchanges were far more revealing than usual.

Harriet Harman asked Cameron about his plans to cut tax credits. Revealingly, Cameron didn’t deny that tax credits were going to be cut or tell Harman to wait until the Budget on July the 8. I think we can take that as something close to confirmation that tax credits will be cut as part of the government’s effort to make £12 billion of savings from the welfare Budget. Indeed, Cameron even endorsed the idea that tax credits have actually kept wages down when he said that he wanted a ‘high pay, low tax, and lower welfare’.

Angus Robertson, for the SNP, accused the government of failing to implement either ‘the vow’ or the Smith Commission’s recommendation. Cameron responded by claiming that the SNP ‘only want to talk about process’ rather than actually doing anything.