At last, a group of MPs intent on reforming our madly unfair council tax | Heather Stewart
The system relies on valuations from 1991, when Gorbachev was in power, but has become politically untouchable
“It’s a fairness thing. Just the idea that somebody sitting in a two-bedroom house in Hartlepool is paying more council tax than somebody who’s living in a mansion – it’s just offensive.”
The Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash, Hartlepool’s MP, is on a mission to draw attention to an issue he jokingly calls “the third rail of British politics” – because no mainstream party, including his own, wants to touch it, for fear of electoral death. Continue reading...
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