bedroom tax
A tale of two benefit cuts
The first four pilots of the government’s £26,000 benefit cap for workless families launches today. While there’s a bit of debate today about the rights and wrongs of this particular… Continue reading
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Liam Fox shows David Cameron how to lead the Tories to a historic defeat
I think it is fair to say that Dr Liam Fox has never been one of David Cameron’s chief chums. The former Defence Secretary has, as Paul Goodman notes, been… Continue reading
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Tory MPs lobby David Cameron on the ‘bedroom tax’
Liam Byrne launched Labour’s campaign on the ‘bedroom tax’ today, while Helen Goodman, who was the Labour minister responsible for the party’s own attempt at cutting the housing benefit bill… Continue reading
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The ‘bedroom tax’ shows Downing Street does need a Damian McBride character
MPs are debating that Cut With the Awkward Name, the Under-occupation of Social Housing: Housing Benefit Entitlement, also known by its opponents as the ‘bedroom tax’, this afternoon. I’ve already… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Ed Miliband vs David Cameron on the ‘bedroom tax’
It was cynical. It was shameless. It was low-down politics in every way. But Miliband’s stunt at PMQs very nearly worked. His theme was the reform of housing benefit that… Continue reading
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PMQs: Ed Miliband’s ‘bedroom tax’ attacks ignore the facts
At a particularly unedifying PMQs today, one Labour MP even suggested that ministers need cognitive behavioural therapy. The cause of all this rancour: the so-called ‘bedroom tax’. Now, the ‘bedroom… Continue reading
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