Freud Says Bedroom Tax Term Is Misleading... Then Calls It Bedroom Tax Himself

Bungling Lord Freud has put his foot in his mouth again to become the first Tory minister to call the Bedroom Tax “the Bedroom Tax”. Lord Freud’s gaffe came just minutes after he mocked ­another peer for using the term.  He told Labour’s Baroness Hollis: “I must make the point that while the party opposite likes to use the expression “Bedroom Tax” it is deeply misleading.”  Shadow work and pensions minister Maeve Sherlock suggested ministers were now referring to the spare-room ­subsidy as “Lord Freud’s idea” to distance themselves from it. Lord Freud replied: “A good idea has many fathers. Clearly everyone in this Government is responsible for the Bedroom Tax and I am one of them.” Read more on the Daily Mirror website.