Liam Byrne launches Labour's campaign against the Bedroom Tax in Hull

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne is in Hull today to launch a major Labour campaign to highlight the unfairness of David Cameron's Bedroom Tax.

The launch will be the first in a series of events ahead of the introduction of the bedroom tax in April - at exactly the same time as the Government are giving 13,000 millionaires a tax cut worth £100,000 a year on average.

Ahead of the launch Hull North's Labour MP Diana Johnson said: "4,700 Hull tenants will be hit by the bedroom tax, with just 73 one and two bedroom properties available they have got little chance of moving. The whole policy is a total shambles and at exactly the same time the richest will get a massive tax cut costing £3bn. We all want to reduce the benefits bill and make more efficient use of space in social housing, but how can it be fair to penalise the poorest while cutting taxes for millionaires?

"Without Lib Dem support the Tories could not bring in the Bedroom Tax. Lib Dems have had the chance in Parliament to stand up for ordinary working families, soldiers, carers and disabled people, but once again they chose to follow their Tory friends. That tells you everything you need to know about the Lib Dems."

Liam Byrne MP said: "David Cameron's April tax plan is simply not fair. From next month, 13,000 millionaires are getting a tax cut worth £100,000 a year on average while over 600,000 armed forces families, disabled people and foster carers have to find £728 a year to pay a new Bedroom Tax.

"Yet the plan is such a shambles that someone who's been to prison on a short sentence won't have to pay. How unfair is that? Millionaires and prisoners are looked after but vulnerable people, carers and armed forces families get hit.

"Labour will put relentless pressure on this out of touch Government until Ministers see sense, admit this policy is totally unfair and think again."

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