The Tory mask is slipping again on housing
Today’s Mirror,
Millions of the poorest families face massive rent rises under secret
Conservative plans.
Leaked minutes of a meeting of senior Tories reveal they want to hit
council tenants with bigger bills, to “eliminate” housing benefit and
finally scrap all long-term rental tenancies.
The meeting, attended by David Cameron’s housing adviser Owen Inskip and
London mayor Boris Johnson’s deputy Sir Simon Milton, said social rented
housing was “a dead end”.
The minutes, obtained by the Mirror show, they also discussed driving out
council tenants from Tory-controlled areas, brazenly risking “accusations
of gerrymandering or social engineering”.
Labour MP Karen Buck said: “So much for David Cameron’s compassionate
-Conservativism. As with the NHS, they want to do away with council
housing.”
