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Piers Wauchope with party activist Nicola Greene outside Alastair Campbell’s house

COUNCIL tax-payers in Camden will be worst hit by soaring bills if controversial government plans to re-evaluate property values go-ahead, according to Tory election candidate Piers Wauchope.
The Conservative challenger to Labour’s Glenda Jackson in Hampstead and Highgate at next month’s general election said residents were reeling from the threat of more tax demands in a borough which already has one of the highest council rates in London. He said: “In Camden the average person will be left paying £273.88 extra. Both Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson voted for it. It’s a tax bombshell which is primed to go off after the General Election.”
Cllr Wauchope – the leader of the Tories on Camden Council – has pushed the issue during a door-to-door campaign which was continuing late last night (Wednesday) in Belsize Park with the help Brian Coleman, the Camden and Brent London Assembly member.
Council tax bands – the scale system which sets out how much residents have to pay in tax depending on the value of their homes – are currently based on the last valuation of properties in England which took place in 1991.
Cllr Wauchope’s door-knocking campaign was in full swing on Thursday when he cheekily stopped at the home of Labour campaign planner Alastair Campbell in Estelle Road, Gospel Oak.
There was no answer at the door but journalist Fiona Millar, Mr Campbell’s partner, later told the New Journal: “I wish I had been in. I would have given him a piece of my mind.”