If the party really wants to honour its past, then it must face up to problems of the present.
It’s not bad policy, but it isn’t obvious why one group is deserving of so much more support than the other.
The key is not just to get homes built, but to provide realistic pathways to ownership for middle- and working-class families.
How better to follow Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday than by citing a signature Tory policy that shifted wealth to “working people and their families”?
Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.
Government schemes to promote home buying are not reaching a large part of the population who aspire to own their own homes.
The rest of our economy is shifting to greater sustainability. The system to provide places to live should do the same.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
There’s a development of 5,000 new homes near where I live. The sign board doesn’t mention the large Government grant.
Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?
Council tenants would be able to transfer the value of their Right to Buy discount and use it towards buying a different, cheaper property which they could afford.
Alex Morton and the rest of our research team have spent weeks crunching the numbers to ensure that they stack up
The Director of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit on his four tests for new Government policies – and moving on from the confidence vote.