Chris Bryant MP, Labour’s Shadow Welfare Reform Minister, commenting following a vote forced by Labour on the Bedroom Tax, said:

“Yet again the Tories and Lib Dems have failed to listen to the people of Britain who know the bedroom tax has been a fiasco from the beginning. Instead of scrapping the hated bedroom tax they have today made it apply to thousands more households. Rather than closing loopholes in this failed policy, the government should scrap the Bedroom Tax. If they don’t a Labour government will.”

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