Angela Rayner is electoral gold – for the Tories

Margaret Thatcher’s decision, long ago, to allow tenants to buy their council houses at a discount was not without its problems. Since, on Treasury insistence, the money from the sales was not redeployed to assist with a new generation of cheap housing, the net effect, except for the direct beneficiaries, was to make the property ladder a steeper climb.

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