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Bedroom tax victims ambush Wales Secretary

ANGRY bedroom tax victims confronted Wales Secretary David Jones during the Tory’s visit to the Welsh Assembly yesterday. 

Mr Jones boasted about how the Con-Dem government was “delivering for Wales” as he kicked off a debate on the Queen’s speech. 

But his rhetoric was thrown off course by Labour AM Mick Antoniw, who challenged him to meet a group of affected tenants waiting in the public gallery. 

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