article_snippet.sent: Osborne has refused to rule out further cuts to child benefit if the Conservatives win a second term.
article_snippet.sent: Osborne, pictured visiting the Red Cone Cafe in Stourbridge, refused to rule out further cuts to child benefit if the Conservatives win a second term .
article_snippet.sent: Osborne was asked at a briefing in central London on the economy this morning whether Osborne could ‘rule out depriving more people of child benefit, like you’ve already done in this Parliament?
article_snippet.sent: Osborne did not directly answer about reducing the threshold, only saying that child benefit would not be replaced by the new benefits system Universal Credit, which is being rolled out nationally.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Asked again why the Prime Minister did not rule out any type of child benefit cuts, the Prime Minister said: ‘
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne was asked at a briefing in central London on the economy this morning whether Mr Osborne could ‘rule out depriving more people of child benefit, like you’ve already done in this Parliament?'
article_snippet.sent: ‘Mr Osborne repeatedly refused to rule out rolling child benefit into universal credit.
article_snippet.sent: An aide to Mr Osborne played down suggestions the Conservatives were planning changes to child benefit.
highlights_snippet.sent: Challenged to ‘rule out depriving more people of child benefit' at briefing .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Refuses to rule out rolling Child Benefit into Universal Credit system .
  