The election has finally opened Tory eyes to the disaster of the bedroom tax

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Reposted from the Guardian on line

Some of Cameron’s party faithful are asking whether the bedroom tax costs more socially than it is saves financially. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images

• When elected to a majority government, David Cameron and his ministers inside the Department for Communities and Local Government must have thought they’d won the arguments on the things they thought mattered: new development (but only where local people want it), the shared aspiration to own your own home and the moral case for imposing a bedroom tax on social tenants. Now the critics are wriggling out of the woodwork.

The first flashpoint is the bedroom tax. Backbench Conservatives returned from constituents’ doorsteps with a very different view on the policy. They heard for themselves the human tragedies that imposing such a cost on maintaining a family home creates.

Many are worried about one group in particular: divorced or…

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