Labour seeks to pile pressure on government to abolish the Bedroom Tax
Labour is gearing up for a major assault on the Tories over the Bedroom Tax – culminating in…
Bedroom Tax
Labour will repeal the bedroom tax, confirms Liam Byrne MP
The bedroom tax is the worst combination of incompetence and cruelty – and Labour will repeal it. Just…
Ed Miliband confirms: “We’ll scrap the bedroom tax”
As anticipated by a shift in the party’s rhetoric in recent weeks, Ed Miliband will confirm tomorrow at…
Forget Grand Designs – we need to self-build if we want better housing
Interested in housing issues? Join LabourList for a free breakfast on Monday 23rd September at Labour Conference to…
Labour Conference 2013 is the Cost of Living conference – but what does that mean? And will it work?
It won’t be a particular surprise to anyone who has watched Labour’s messaging shift over the summer towards…
Is this confirmation that Labour plans to abolish the Bedroom Tax?
There has been much debate recently over whether Labour would abolish the Bedroom Tax if the party wins…
The real figures that should be driving the welfare debate
Simon Kirby, one of Brighton & Hove’s two Conservative MPs claims that 60% of his constituents support the…
It’s not OK for the government to discriminate against disabled children but it is OK for them to discriminate against disabled adults
You might remember the infamous “workfare” ruling some time ago that crucially didn’t judge whether the policy was…
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…
Thank you Ed for putting housing centre stage, but let’s go further
Out on the doorstep I hear it all the time: “I’d hate to be starting out now”. Wages…
