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LABOUR’S new shadow housing minister launched an independent investigation into home ownership yesterday, telling his party conference that buying a house was “part of the British dream.”
In Brighton, John Healey MP told delegates that housebuilder Taylor Wimpey boss Peter Redfern would lead the inquiry and report on his findings next year.
According to figures by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), there has been a sharp decline in first-time and young buyers over the past five years and a constant rise in privately rented accommodation.
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
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