Now even Tory Ministers are calling it the “Bedroom Tax”

David Cameron has tried calling it the “spare room subsidy” or even the “under occupancy charge”, but now even Tory Minister’s are calling it what it is – the Bedroom Tax. In the Lords this week, Neil Kinnock asked if:

 “the bedroom tax is forcing people out of even low-rent social housing, which is still too expensive for new tenants to take up, could it not be said, fairly, that the Government are, through their policies, making their own contribution to the increase in homelessness and rough sleeping?”

In response, Tory Minister Joan Hanham replied:

“There is no evidence of the bedroom tax having affected homelessness.”

Like previous Tory attempts to claim that the Poll Tax was the “Community Charge”, eventually even they admit what it is…