Entire Dutch cabinet resigns over child benefit fraud scandal
Daily MailDutch PM Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet resigned today over a child benefits scandal in which thousands of families were wrongly accused of fraud. New elections will be held in March with the centre-right Rutte staying on as a caretaker until then to manage the country's coronavirus response, with Holland currently enduring its strictest lockdown of the whole pandemic. On his bike: Dutch PM Mark Rutte leaves the parliament building in The Hague today as the entire cabinet resigned over a child benefits scandal Rutte, in office since 2010, described the affair as 'shameful' and announced today that 'the buck stops here' after a crisis meeting of his four-party coalition cabinet. Rutte and his cabinet will stay on as caretakers until a March election to manage the country's coronavirus response Dutch authorities will pay compensation of at least €30,000 to around 10,000 families after an inquiry found that 'unprecedented injustice' had been done.
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