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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.
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP