used towards paying off a mortgage. he also wants the money you get through benefits to be included towards your mortgage application so that potentially you can apply for a bit more if you want to buy a house. i have not got the full details at the moment. we have been asking for more, so we do not know exactly how that will work out. at the moment if you have £16,000 in the bank for a deposit, you will get universal credit. there are some details to be worked out, also details we are going to be trying to get on the plan to extend the right to buy for people living and housing association properties in england. that is something the tories have talked about for a few years and something that prime minister will revisit again today. 0nce something that prime minister will revisit again today. once again the details are a bit thin at the moment. details are a bit thin at the moment- details are a bit thin at the moment. , ., ,, , , ., moment. interesting. it takes you back to margare
a beautiful sunny day but windy as well. the prime minister is going to spend nearly some of his speech later this morning talking about how he wants to get more people onto the housing ladder. his big idea is if people can buy homes that will help with his levelling up the agenda. a couple of things we know about already. the pm is going to say people on benefits should be able to use housing benefits towards mortgage payments and toward saving up mortgage payments and toward saving up for a deposit in the first place. there are big questions about how that will work in practice but that is the idea. the other idea is to let people living in housing association homes in england by them under a association homes in england by them undera similar plan association homes in england by them under a similar plan to margaret thatcher s right to buy policy from the 805. the 5pecific5 will be important. it is worth remembering the conservative party tried this
she devotes a whole chapter to scargill s insurrection, and secondly, i never met thatcher. imagine that. from the second world war to today, the only prime minister that i never met was margaret thatcher. i have no regrets. now aged 84, arthur believes today s trade union leaders should learn the lessons of sully. saltly. you ll make it was the turning point in the miners strike and lead to a complete victory, it was the greatest day of my life. arthur scargill ending that report from ian white. wayne rooney has said he could have either died or killed someone as a result of his drinking problems. the former manchester united footballer, who s now
aring this for 12 years suddenly there was a cheer, a roar went up, suddenly there was a cheer, a roar went up, and i looked round and coming over the hill, as far as the eye could see, were thousands of engineers tojoin us, and women leading them. what happened on the 10th of february 1972 won the strike, got miners a big pay rise and made trade union history. it also defeated the conservative government and took arthur scargill to national prominence for the first time. everything i had dreamed about as a trade unionist came to fruition. for the first time in my life, the things i d talked about were a reality. miners and other workers in solidarity action. 12 years later, the miners were on strike again, but margaret thatcher s government was determined there wouldn t be a repeat of saltley gate. first of all, in her autobiography
you re laying out margaret thatcher s view, françois mitterand s view, we don t want germany to be unified again. they said the purpose of nato is to keep the americans in, the germans down, and the russians out. bush always looked forward. my friend jeff engel at smu makes a marvelous point about how bush was the first figure in 89, 90, one of his first trips, i think his first trip overseas was to japan where he had almost died in 1944 in the pacific, to press forward. he wanted to move on, beyond the past. he was historically mind, but he really was all about the next thing. it s one of the reasons he was jumping out of airplanes when he was 90 years old.