Raab Raises Stakes With Labour Over Home Ownership

Housing minister Dominic Raab says home ownership is “the British dream” and it’s a vision not shared in Labour’s appeal to a younger generation. Raab referenced the “Marxist decree” that all property is theft to take a swipe at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow housing minister John Healy. On housing, Raab said, the Tories had a chance to re-cast their social contract with younger voters. The sense of injustice felt by younger voters was most piercing for the Conservatives, Raab said, precisely because of the party’s success in instilling the aspiration of home-ownership in the next generation – only for them to find the housing ladder has been pulled up beyond their reach. Read more on the Daily Telegraph website.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/01/housing-priority-conservatives-know-doomed-fail/