Backbenchers express anger as impact assessment shows 3.2 million households will be worse off

Labour MPs have accused the chancellor of making “devastating” and “unacceptable” welfare cuts after the government’s own analysis showed they would leave more than 3 million households worse off and push 250,000 people into poverty.

Backbench MPs hit back after the government published its impact assessment of the benefits reductions which were announced in full on Wednesday as part of Rachel Reeves’s spring statement.