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  This could produce another `U` turn.
  
  Courtesy Independent.
  
  Bedroom tax crisis: Ed Miliband commits to abolition of controversial benefit cut - if Labour win next election
  
  Archbishop of Canterbury joins chorus of voices condemning 'vicious' policy
  
  Ed Miliband pledged to abolish the Coalition's "vicious and iniquitous bedroom tax" if Labour is returned to
  
  power at the next election.
  
  In a keynote announcement at the start of his party's Brighton conference, Mr Miliband said the next
  
  manifesto would include a commitment to scrap the benefit cut - which has been condemned for plunging
  
  thousands of council tenants into rent arrears.
  
  Mr Miliband said Labour would make up for the £470m the spare room subsidy is meant to save by
  
  reversing some of the Government's tax cuts for businesses and George Osborne's "shares for rights"
  
  scheme. The pledge opens up a clear policy divide between Labour and its Conservative and Liberal
  
  Democrat opponents and is likely to be a major issue at the next election. While Mr Miliband is nervous
  
  about committing Labour to reversing other Coalition benefit restrictions, he believes he can win the public
  
  argument over the "bedroom tax" because of its perceived unfairness.

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