Under the Adam Smith Institute’s proposed scheme, anyone who is currently eligible for the existing Right to Buy scheme would be allowed to use the discount to purchase any private house of their choosing.
If the party really wants to honour its past, then it must face up to problems of the present.
It’s not bad policy, but it isn’t obvious why one group is deserving of so much more support than the other.
The key is not just to get homes built, but to provide realistic pathways to ownership for middle- and working-class families.
How better to follow Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday than by citing a signature Tory policy that shifted wealth to “working people and their families”?
Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.
Government schemes to promote home buying are not reaching a large part of the population who aspire to own their own homes.
The rest of our economy is shifting to greater sustainability. The system to provide places to live should do the same.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
There’s a development of 5,000 new homes near where I live. The sign board doesn’t mention the large Government grant.
Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?
If she really has the legal advice she claims, this damaging story should be easy to close down. If he can’t even make his own deputy show it to him, what does that say about his authority?