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Flagship Tory policy Help to Buy does not actually help people on to the housing ladder but just drives up prices, Vince Cable told the Liberal Democrat conference yesterday.
The Business Secretary endorsed new party policy on tackling housing, which includes proposals to allow councils to suspend the right to buy, before members approved the plan.
He launched the sharp attack on the Tory housing scheme as he wound up an hour-long debate on the policy paper.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON