Lord Tebbit has warned the Conservative Party that the
bedroom tax will cost them votes at next year's general election. The Tory
grandee spoke out against the controversial under-occupation penalty during an
event in parliament hosted by the Bow Group. Delivering the right-wing
think-tank's first Annual State of the Conservative Party Address, he said the
chances of the Conservatives winning the next election were "not looking
too hopeful". "I worry about what Labour chooses to call the bedroom
tax," he said. "Because so often what is a spare room is in fact a
vital part of the looking after an elderly person. It enables their relatives
to come, it enables carers to be there." He added: "I think we
introduced that rather without thinking it through very well, and I think
that's costing us." Read more on 24dash.
