“I very much look forward to working alongside you again when you are back to full health,” the Prime Minister wrote when he stood down in January. And here he is.
A right to shared ownership would also be welcome. Boldness is needed to prevent a Corbyn Government.
The Government should return to the approach championed in 1988, and abandon the practice of punishing landlords.
Our innovative Earn Your Deposit Scheme would give the young a real chance to get on the housing ladder.
If she really is to “dedicate my premiership” to fixing housing growth and home ownership, she will need to throw a chunk of her caution to the winds.
“This is the most important job of your political career so far – and there’s a lot riding on what you make of it. On this one you need to make a difference.”
Local decision-making must be respected if communities are to be confident in embracing development. We need these principles in urban areas too.
When people cannot afford to live in the place where they work they spend more and more of their own time and money commuting on congested trains and roads. We need to broaden the Community Land Trust model to include market housing.
Making it harder for criminals to hide behind shell companies will boost our international standing and remove a driver of high house prices.
The Somerset MP in conversation with ConHome on: social care, housing, Brexit and the Lords, Carillion…and the reshuffle.
The Conservatives need to support genuine allies – such as savers, home owners, small businesses, and the armed forces.
The idea that those now entering old age somehow had it easy is completely wrong. And so is the myth that they are intolerant and narrow-minded.
It is not a fix-all, but I hope its measures will produce a real improvement in the number of people who become homeless in the first place.