Labour Attacks Tenure Reform Plans

Labour MPs have attacked government plans to review lifetime tenancies in a motion to be debated at the party’s annual conference. The motion criticises the coalition’s ‘destructive housing policies’ on housing benefit, investment in affordable housing and closing housing quangos. It says the plans to reform tenure, first announced by Prime Minister David Cameron in August, were ‘in neither Tory nor Liberal manifestos and was denied by Cameron during the election, who accused Labour of “scaremongering”’. It accuses the coalition of enacting ‘a betrayal of everything the Liberal Democrats have said about security of tenure in the past’. The motion also criticises the government’s decision to close the Tenant Services Authority and the National Tenant Voice. It has also emerged that the Labour Housing Group is conducting a review of the party’s housing policy in preparation for the next general election. Read more on Inside Housing.