British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about how important equality meant to his party, in his speech to the Conservative’s annual conference.
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He said that the starter home programme, where new-built properties are offered at 20% discounts to first time buyers aged 40 or under, would be now be classed as affordable housing.
The pledge is part of a bid to increase the amount of homes for first-time buyers in an effort to shift from “generation rent” to “generation buy”. It basically meant homes that were only available to rent.
“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”.
APHC chief executive John Thompson commented “The Prime Minister’s latest measure is likely to provide a welcome boost to the UK’s construction industry”.
Councils can now force builders to earmark a certain proportion of properties in a new-build housing development as affordable homes for rent. “That means banks’ lending, government releasing land and, yes – planning being reformed”.
Home ownership has always been a totemic issue for the Conservative Party.
He added: “But in a few Madrassas we’ve got children being taught that they shouldn’t mix with people of other religions, being beaten, swallowing conspiracy theories about Jewish people”. To that end, the PM plans to tear up the requirement for developers to build affordable rental homes.
“My friends – we can not let that man inflict his security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology on the country we love”.
To attract younger voters – many of whom have backed Labour’s new far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn, he unveiled a new policy to spur home ownership, striking at criticism that his Conservative government is failing growing numbers of Britons unable to buy a house.
But he say the work is not over, saying: “Over the next five years we will show that the deep problems in our society – they are not inevitable”. Vintage Tory conference tub-thumping, but not altogether at one with his more reasoned attempts also to sell the “modern, compassionate, One Nation Conservative Party”, “the party of working people, the party for working people – today, tomorrow, always”.
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The incumbent prime minister used this example as a warning about the threat his opposition rival poses to the country if elected as leader.
