Boris Johnson is shown how to fit roofing tiles during a visit to the West Carclaze Garden Village housing development in Cornwall. The measure will be the centrepiece of the prime minister’s housing speech on Thursday to reassert his authority amid a Tory revolt. Advertisement“Right to buy” first entered the political lexicon when former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher let council tenants buy their own homes in 1980. Social housing is rarely overseen by councils today after most of the stock was hived off to housing associations or arms length bodies. Proposals for renters to be able to buy their social homes at a discount are not new, and appeared in David Cameron’s 2015 Conservative manifesto.

Source: The Times June 09, 2022 04:38 UTC