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LABOUR group members from Camden are in the thick of a determined bid to derail government policy on council housing at the party’s annual conference in Brighton.
Backbench councillor Pat Callaghan is due to take centre stage this morning (Thursday) when she moves a motion in the main conference hall which effectively calls on ministers to cough up millions of pounds in direct investment to improve Camden’s crumbling council homes.
The move comes after sev-eral flashpoints in a mixture of private and fringe meetings on the south coast.
Camden leader Dame Jane Roberts collared housing minister Yvette Cooper in a behind-closed-doors meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
She argued that bringing council homes up to scratch should be a chief priority.
Later that day, Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson compared the government’s funding strategy with Stalinist Russia in an unrestrained attack at an open meeting in the seafront Belgrave Hotel.
The stinging revolt has heaped pressure on Ms Cooper, as well as her department bosses Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and David Miliband to end their rigid refusal to fund repairs to Camden’s homes.

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