It goes back to those Conservative beliefs, reward for hard work. “That belief in equality of opportunity has been our guiding principle for the past five years”. “Because we do things our way”.
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“If you want something done about it, come to us”. He also confirmed that a deal had been reached by Local Government Secretary Greg Clark to extend Right to Buy to housing association tenants.
“But the challenge is far far bigger”. That should be a wakeup call for us.
Sky News says Cameron is using the 50-minute speech to call for a “national crusade to get homes built” and create a home-owning revolution, turning “generation rent” into “generation buy”.
The prime minister plans to expand house building across the country by urging banks to lend more and by dissolving existing planning rules.
He added: “These children are in our care”. The measure will also mean developers will fulfil their obligations towards councils as long as they build homes for purchase.
By targeting home building, they are pressing that campaign.
Housing charity Shelter, who are based in Plymouth, have since rounded on the £250,000 “starter homes” by claiming only those earning more than £50,000 a year will be able to afford one.
In a section of the prime minister’s speech to the Conservative Party conference on extremism, Mr Cameron warned that institutions teaching intolerance would be “shut down”.
“The officials who prepare the plans or the homes, developers that build them, the politicians that talk about them, most of these people own the homes they live in”. At the moment there is too much emphasis put on conserving green spaces around quaint commuter villages and towns that house numerous Tory faithful who don’t want to see development in their neighbourhood.
“I believe we can make this era – these 2010s – a defining decade for our country”, he is expected to say.
“That’s how we kept our border checkpoints when others chose to take theirs down”, Cameron said.
The government is set to amend planning policy to encourage developers to build affordable housing to meet heavy demand – part of the Conservative Party’s drive to shed its image as a party that looks after only the rich and privileged, and to attract support from lower earners.
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The Labour leader’s team responded to the accusations through their Twitter account, explaining that Cameron is trying to avoid debating issues and instead opting for “name calling” and personalized attacks.
