'Bedroom Tax' Architect Freud Has 11 Spare Bedrooms

One of the chief architects of the Government's 'bedroom tax' has 11 spare bedrooms of his own, it has been revealed.  Welfare minister Lord Freud, whose under occupancy rules will soon see social tenants with spare bedrooms hit with benefit cuts, owns an eight-bedroom country house in Kent that he only stays in during the weekends and holidays.  On top of the eight bedrooms that sit empty for the majority of the year, the minister's main four-bed home in London's Highgate is occupied only by himself and his wife, leaving another three bedrooms vacant. Read more on 24dash.