LABOUR will launch an attempt today to scrap the bedroom tax by Christmas as the average cost of the cruel Con-Dem policy for poor families flies over the £1,000 mark.

MPs will vote on whether the hated housing benefit cut should be abolished with immediate effect for the half a million tenants affected.

Their chance to abolish the bedroom tax comes after Labour highlighted official figures which show it has robbed social housing tenants of £1,260 since being introduced last April.