The Secretary of State may want to correct the record, because actually I froze council tax, with a zero increase, the year following the crisis in 2007-08 and the year after that as well, but does he recognise that it is the Conservative leader of the Local Government Association, James Jamieson—a councillor I am sure he knows very well—who has called for the cap to be lifted for council tax increases and for a referendum to be abolished, not the Labour party Front Bench?
Council Tax: Government’s Proposed Increase
Proceeding contribution from
Steve Reed
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 25 January 2021.
It occurred during Opposition day on Council Tax: Government’s Proposed Increase.
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