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NHF targets Lib Dem MPs in bedroom tax battle

21 February 2012 | By Carl Brown

The National Housing Federation is urging people to tweet Liberal Democrat MPs to persuade them to support an amendment aimed at watering down the government’s controversial ‘bedroom tax’.

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