The home ownership revolution continues.
Helping hard-working people get the homes, services, and security they deserve should be at the front of the Chancellor’s mind as he prepares the Autumn Statement.
If the only options are concrete blocks of various shapes then it is a bogus consultation.
Housing, roads and networks are three priorities for the Autumn Statement.
Indiscriminate attacks on Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the media and business are anti-meritocratic and nihilistic, which should trouble those on the Right.
Promises have already been abandoned – on transport fares, housing, policing. Even trees.
And on Brexit, as one who campaigned for In, I say we should get on with it, and avoid the one outcome that is infinitely less preferable to Leave or Remain: limbo.
There will now be a by-election in the Whitechapel Ward. But will the police ensure that it is free and fair?
Attractive developments are blocked – ugly ones are pushed through.
Huge council public health budgets are largely wasted – they should fund specialist help to avert rough sleeping.
Homes adapted for individual requirements allow more independence and better value for money.
The previous administration saw private landlords as part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
What stands in the way of the homes, jobs and savings proclaimed on the masthead of this site is not a state that’s too liberal, but one that’s not liberal enough.
The second piece in our mini-series on the Autumn Statement, which takes place a week from today.