Damien

They've denied the council tax reforms, as posted, but it was unlikely to happen anyway. It would amount, on average, to a huge tax hike on London and southern England, with a tax cut for the north. Guess where a load of Labour MPs have seats?

Besides. This would only work if you removed social care from councils and funded it nationally. Councils are in charge of social care provision, and that's where the vast majority of your council tax goes. Are your bins being collected less frequently despite council tax increasing? Social care costs.

You wouldn't be able to lopside council tax so drastically without redistributing the increase in income in the south to make up for the drop in the north. Which probably means radically overhauling how it all works in the first place.