No 10 files reveal Peter Walker,minister in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, opposed exemption on grounds it would be abusedA creep to exempt homeless rough sleepers from paying the poll tax was opposed by one of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet ministers on the grounds that it would “encourage them to sleep on the streets”, or according to newly released Downing Street files.
Peter Walker,the then Welsh secretary, argued that creating an exemption for those who sleep rough would set an enormous loophole into the system and would be abused”.
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Source: theguardian.com