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The government is pursuing an ideologically driven housing policy that takes up where Thatcherism left off.
The right to buy helped decide the 1983 election and the Tories hope that promoting home-ownership will do the same in 2015.
The influential Conservative think tank Renewal has recently argued that tackling housing is the only way David Cameron can connect with working-class people, particularly outside south-east England.
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