Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes has failed in his bid to debate ‘fixed-term tenancies’ at the party’s autumn conference, but has insisted the party has the power to stop the pledge becoming official Coalition policy. Hughes's motion called for the Government to rule out the removal of lifetime tenures for social tenants. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme "There is a huge debate about how we build the social housing not built by Labour whose record was appalling and there’s a commitment across both coalition parties to build more social housing every year of this Government than any year of the Labour Government. “ Read more on 24dash.
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