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Labour to commit to scrapping bedroom tax?
further to Liam Byrne having said that the bedroom tax policy ‘must be dropped now’ ...
(see this morning’s guardian story @ http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2013/sep/20/bedroom-tax-liam-byrne-labour) ....
... rumours are now circulating that an announcement will be made at 18:30 tonight ahead of the Labour Party Conference ... see, for example
https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/381031992227553280
https://twitter.com/hilaryburkitt/status/381059176627073025
It’s interesting how the BT seems to be the only welfare reform change that has stirred up any ground-swell of public indignation (sadly, I’m as sure as eggs is eggs that Labour would be leaving well alone had it not done so).