The Tories £2 billion council tax bombshell will hammer seats represented by new Conservative MPs in former Labour seats in the North and Midlands hardest.
The brutal local tax rises announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Comprehensive Spending Review will see town halls across the country forced to pass costs on to households to pay for the financial crisis caused by Covid-19 Band D Council Taxpayers will face an average rise of £91 next year under plans by the Chancellor to encourage councils to raise the tax for areas that deliver social care by 5%, from £1,818 to £1,908.
The 30 areas with the highest council tax rises overlap with eleven key Parliamentary seats held by Labour until 2019 and two seats held until the 2017 General
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