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A LONDON Labour council was accused yesterday of lying to its residents after announcing it would replace 4,000 council homes with privately rented new builds.
Earlier this year, a Haringey Council officer was recorded promising locals that demolished estates would not be sold to private developers.
But in a cabinet meeting last week the council agreed to transfer social tenants to “a housing association currently known as a private registered provider.”
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
