Monday, 11 November 2013

Treasury Minister Danny Alexander's Dad Slams the Bedroom Tax

The hated Bedroom Tax championed by Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander has been slammed – by his own father. Housing association boss Di blasted it as “particularly unfair” in a stinging attack on the Coalition. His condemnation of his son’s favourite welfare reform can be revealed as Labour prepares to call on David Cameron and George Osborne to ditch the tax in a crunch Commons vote on Tuesday. He said tenants forced out of their homes could not find alternative places to live and revealed that the Government’s welfare shake-up meant “considerable challenges” for his housing association’s tenants in Lochaber, Scotland. Mr Alexander added: “The so-called Bedroom Tax is particularly unfair.” Read more on the Daily Mirror website.

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