By
James Chapman
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Ministers reacted with fury last night after controversial UN inspector Raquel Rolnik produced a ‘misleading Marxist diatribe’ condemning the Government’s flagship welfare and housing policies.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith described the Brazilian’s report – which criticises the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ and demands better housing for travellers – as ‘utterly ridiculous’.
And Housing Minister Kris Hopkins said: ‘This partisan report is completely discredited, and it is disappointing that the United Nations has allowed itself to be associated with a misleading Marxist diatribe.’
Anger: Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith (left) reacted with fury after UN inspector Raquel Rolnik (right) issued what he called an ‘utterly ridiculous’ report
Miss Rolnik visited Britain last year as the UN’s ‘special rapporteur’ on housing, prompting a storm of controversy.
At
the end of her trip she voiced concern about housing benefit cuts,
saying that she was ‘shocked to hear how many people feel abused in
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