Housing Benefit: Coalition Faces Commons Split

The Lib Dems and Conservatives are set for a Commons showdown later over a bid to ease housing benefit changes. Lib Dem MP Andrew George wants to exempt more people from what critics call the "bedroom tax". Lib Dem MPs will get behind Mr George's bill, with Labour also promising to back it. The Tories are understood to have ordered their MPs to vote against the bill on Friday (5^th) on a three-line whip. If Mr George's private member's bill becomes law people who could not be found a smaller home would be exempt from the housing benefit changes. The bill would also exempt disabled people who need a spare bedroom or who have adapted homes. Read more on the BBC website.