The Conservative budget will cost average working families in Hounslow more than £2,000 in tax credits, the boroughs MPs have claimed.

Labour MPs Ruth Cadbury and Seema Malhotra both rounded on George Osborne's latest spending plans, which he announced on Wednesday (July 8).

They said a family with two children and one earner receiving the average wage would lose more than £2,000 in tax credits.

Feltham & Heston MP Seema Malhotra said: "More families will struggle to make ends meet [due to measures in the budget] and it will also hit the local economy hard.

"Women are also being hit twice as hard as men."

She also criticised the decision to replace student maintenance grants with loans, claiming it would make university education "a preserve of the rich".

Brentford & Isleworth MP Ruth Cadbury accused the chancellor of caring more about his "political legacy" than helping ordinary people.

"Instead of putting working people first and investing in the economy of tomorrow, George Osborne has gambled with British families and businesses in order to preserve his political legacy," she said.

"It was a missed opportunity, and there will be millions of families across the country that will now feel the squeeze."

Ruth Cadbury said millions of families would 'feel the squeeze' as a result of the budget

The contents of Mr Osborne's red briefcase represented the first budget by a Conservative government in nearly two decades, and the austerity measures were less severe than many commentators had predicted.

Among the measures he announced were an increase in the national living wage to £9 an hour for over 25s by 2020 and a planned hike in personal allowance - the amount of tax-free earnings - from £10,600 to £12,500 by 2020.

But the £9bn of cuts to welfare spending by 2019/20, which he said would stop the Government subsidising lower wages, came under fire from many of his political rivals.

They included a four-year freeze in working age benefits, lowering the household benefits cap in London from £26,000 to £23,000, and reducing the level of earnings at which tax credits start to be withdrawn.