Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to Iain Duncan Smith not attending today’s Opposition Day debate on the Bedroom Tax, said:

“It shows just how out of touch this Government is that Iain Duncan Smith is not bothering to turn up to the Commons to explain why hard-pressed families at the sharp end of the cost-of-living crisis are being hit with the Bedroom Tax, at the same time as millionaires are getting a tax cut.

"This vote gives MPs a chance to show where they stand and vote to repeal this unjust and unworkable policy. If Tory and Lib Dem MPs vote against repeal, we won’t let them forget it – and we’ll step up our campaign to elect a Labour government that will”