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Workers Hit Hardest by Vicious Housing Bill
Tory proposals to kill off council housing and end secure tenancies reach the House of Lords for second reading
THE Tories’ vicious Housing Bill reaches the House of Lords for its second reading today as campaigners argue the policy will affect Britain’s hardest working the most.
The policy would see all existing council housing sold off to the highest bidder and put an end to secure tenancies.
Members of the Kill the Housing Bill campaign spent the hours ahead of the debate lobbying for the Bill to be scrapped.
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