The Conservative Manifesto’s commitment to garden cities where local people want them was a welcome demonstration of a willingness to provide housing supply.
There are policies here that provide the common ground with both major parties, from hawkish deficit reduction targets to envy taxes.
Right to Buy is back, baby, And it’s magnificent.
“It’s a measure of how much the Conservatives have run out of new ideas… a poor cover version of one of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s hits.”
“Today, this is our note to you: let’s keep going, to build a brighter, more secure future for you, your family, and our country.”
“What our manifesto is about is securing peoples’ future, giving them those opportunties at every stage of their life to have that security.”
Here is my blueprint for home ownership if I am elected Mayor of London next year.
The choice is between building lots of new homes in many places and lots of new homes in fewer places.
Labour claim their policy would mean an extra 125,000 homes – the correct figure is nil.
Let’s turn council estates into “city villages” – with street patterns and traditional housing rather than tower blocks.
There is more to do – building more houses, giving more power to local communities and helping people onto the housing ladder.
Proper capitalism – i.e. the capitalism concerned with productive endeavour as opposed to land-based Ponzi schemes – is not to blame.
St Austell & Newquay, Hampstead & Kilburn, Great Yarmouth…what Shelter found, using Lord Ashcroft’s polling as the basis for our research.
Any comprehensive attempt to measure the ways in which life has got better, would also have to account for the things that have got worse.
Growing national debt is a burden that young people and future generations shouldn’t be asked to bear. Governments have a moral responsibility to remove it.