Tory anger over UN benefits report

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11 September 2013 Last updated at 04:22 ET

Raquel Rolnik, pictured in June in Jakarta, is reporting on adequate housing across the world

Conservative chairman Grant Shapps has condemned as an "absolute disgrace" a UN official's critical comments on the government's housing benefit changes.

Mr Shapps said he would be writing to the UN secretary general to protest.

He claimed the UN official Raquel Rolnik failed to meet any ministers or officials, was biased and had wrongly called the "spare room subsidy" policy "the bedroom tax".

Ms Rolnik says her recommendation is for the policy to be axed.

Since April, social tenants in England, Scotland and Wales who are deemed to have surplus bedrooms have seen their housing benefit reduced.

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