Bungling Lord Freud has put his foot in his mouth again to become the first Tory minister to call the Bedroom Tax “the Bedroom Tax”, the Sunday People can reveal. His leader David Cameron will hit the roof because he insists the hated measure is called the spare room subsidy – to make it sound less cruel. The PM’s anger will be even fiercer as Freud is the welfare minister in charge of the Bedroom Tax in the House of Lords. His latest blip comes just days after the Sunday People reported his Freudian slip when he attempted to blame local authorities for a lack of one-bedroom properties. Lord Freud’s gaffe came just minutes after he mocked another peer for using the term. He told Labour’s Baroness Hollis: “I must make the point that while the party opposite likes to use the expression “Bedroom Tax” it is deeply misleading. A tax is when you take away money people earn. We are limiting the amount of money that the taxpayer pays to people.”
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:20:11 +0000
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