The Tory party chairman, Grant Shapps, has described as
an "absolute disgrace" a call from the United Nations for the
government to scrap the so-called bedroom tax.
Accusing Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur on housing, of having
an agenda, Shapps said he had written to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon,
demanding an apology and an explanation of Rolnik's findings. The UN
investigator had not been invited to Britain by ministers, and was biased,
Shapps said. "It is completely wrong and an abuse of the process for
somebody to come over, to fail to meet with government ministers, to fail to
meet with the department responsible, to produce a press release two weeks
after coming, even though the report is not due out until next spring, and even
to fail to refer to the policy properly throughout the report.” The CLG confirmed that Rolnik had met Eric
Pickles, the secretary of state. She also met council officials in Glasgow.
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