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Bedroom tax campaigners urge Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones to stand up to Westminster

The Welsh Labour government was criticised at the weekend for being the only devolved administration not to shield tenants from the Tory bedroom tax.

Affected tenants and their families united with trade unionists at a 100-strong demonstration outside the Senedd on Saturday.

They demanded that First Minister Carwyn Jones halts the hated housing benefit cut by following steps already taken at Holyrood and Stormont.

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