Chris Bryant MP, Labour’s Shadow Welfare Reform Minister, responding to reports that the Lib Dem President will withdraw support for the bedroom tax, said:

“You can’t trust a word the Lib Dems say. They have had chance after chance to vote against the unfair bedroom tax, but they voted it in and voted to keep it ever since. Tim Farron must think the British public have no memory. The Lib Dems could have joined the Labour Party and voted the bedroom tax down, but they backed their Tory pals all the way. This shameless and hypocritical attempt to dodge responsibility for their record won’t fool anyone.

“The Bedroom Tax has been a complete disaster and the government should scrap it. If they don’t the next Labour government will.”

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