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TAXPAYERS may have been short-changed by Tory ministers who showed “alarming complacency” over sales of public land, an investigation by MPs has revealed.
In a feeble bid to get to get to grips with Britain’s housing crisis, the government has been flogging land to private developers, promising 100,000 new homes would be built on the sites.
But a report has found they have no idea of how the land has been used.
The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON
Resistance grows as Fifa seeks to hand private investors a slice of the international game, writes JAMES NALTON
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
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