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That is, in summary, the most accurate description of
Tory plans to extend the existing Right to Buy scheme to allow 1.3 million
housing association tenants the opportunity to buy their own homes. As the centrepiece of the Tory manifesto, David Cameron
hopes that his revival of the Thatcherite dream of a property-owning democracy
will prove his claim that the Conservatives are the party of ordinary working
people. This policy may well be politically tempting to Tory campaign managers,
and even more financially tempting to housing association tenants, but that
doesn’t stop it being dumb, economically illiterate and – even worse – morally
wrong. Read more on the Daily Telegraph website.
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