Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, commenting on the Court of Appeal’s decision to declare the Bedroom Tax ‘discriminatory’, said:

“This victory in the Court of Appeal is a massive blow to the Tories’ Bedroom Tax.  It provides a glimmer of hope for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been hit by this cruel policy.

“Labour has long argued that the Bedroom Tax is deeply unfair and discriminatory, which is why we have campaigned so hard against it.  Surely the time has now come for the Tories to discover a conscience, listen to the courts as well as the public, and scrap the hated Bedroom Tax.”