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DAVID CAMERON'S hated bedroom tax breaches human rights and should be scrapped, a top UN official will demand today.

Special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik will call on the Con-Dems to scrap their decision to cut benefits to tenants with a spare room. She will say the policy breaches the basic right to housing as there are not enough smaller properties for tenants to move into.

Rolnik is ready to reveal her findings today after an unprecedented two-week tour of the UK meeting campaigners, bedroom tax victims and officials.

Ironically, it was the Tory-led Government who gave the Brazilian housing and architecture academic permission to carry out the study – and she is set to deliver a harsh critique of Britain’s housing crisis.

The Government claim cutting housing benefit for tenants who have a spare room will save £500million a year. Households with an extra bedroom will have to find an extra £14 a week or move into alternative accommodation.

But critics say the policy will create huge suffering for 660,000 victims and dispute whether it will save money.

Rolnik has visited London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Manchester over the past fortnight.

(Image: Garry F McHarg/FOCAL Scotland 2013)

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan, now chairman of the Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation, said: “The UN ruling means there is no longer any argument – the bedroom tax must go now.

“As a matter of urgency, all Scottish local authorities now have to move to avoid any evictions resulting from the bedroom tax.

“The SNP Government also have a responsibility to do all they can to stop this tax destroying lives. That means passing a law that stops any bedroom tax evictions.”

A spokesman for the National Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation said: “We warmly welcome the findings and recommendations of the UN special rapporteur calling on the Government to scrap the bedroom tax.

“We said all along that the bedroom tax was a breach of human rights and now the UN have confirmed this.

“We are now calling on the Labour Party to echo or endorse Ms Rolnik’s call for the bedroom tax to be scrapped.”

Labour MP Nick Brown, a member of the Campaign to Defend Council Housing, said he would welcome the UN ruling. He added: “If the Government’s objective is to deal with under-occupancy of social housing, the bedroom tax is not the way to go about it.

“Better management of existing stock and more provision of social housing would be a better use of the money.”

Rolnik will present a final report on the visit to the UN’s human rights council in March next year.