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PREMIER League giants Tottenham Hotspur are being gifted £30.5 million of taxpayers cash as council housing demolished to make way for their new stadium will not be replaced.
The bumper pay-out to the north London football club will come from money that was earmarked for local housing regeneration plans in Tottenham.
Spurs has bought up 14 per cent of the redevelopment area opposite the ground and is accused of using it to hold Haringey Council to ransom and influence building plans.
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance
