and you are looking in for every week and month that goes by, the dream of homeownership recedes further into the distance. the average age of first time buyers has been rising continuously. the proportion of young people who can afford to buy their own home has been falling. between 2005 2016, the proportion of 2534 year olds that owned their own home fell by 20%, whereas in most other countries, it has been rising. it is true that we still have higher rates of overall homeownership just ahead of france and just ahead of germany. and it is true that we are building more as fast as we can after a sustained decline in home ownership rates in the labour government, which is now starting to go back up thanks to our support forfirst time starting to go back up thanks to our support for first time buyers and also building more homes. last year, there were 400,001st time buyers of property which was a 20 year high. 400,000 property which was a 20 year high. 400,000 first time
Mph is the default speed limit on urban roads. Applause. It is also time to put a spot to some councils choosing unfair fines as a money spinner. We will put a stop to councils profiting from traffic offences, Contact Revenue and removing any temptation to exploits you for profit and at the same time will make it easierfor profit and at the same time will make it easier for people to switch to cleaner driving in a sensible way, as the Prime Minister set out recently. There is much more. We will make it easier and cheaper to drive and tried, to park, to use transport sensibly, to cut down on jams we will tune up Traffic Lights to help junctions flow and reduce 24 hour bus lanes where they arent appropriate. The plan includes a new National Parking platform, and think they need to install many different apps just to park your car, and they need to install many different appsjust to park your car, and a new package of measures to help councils tackle the menace of potholes. Applause. 36 y
Wednesday 25th january. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has promised a significant day ahead on National Security, including an announcement about his plans for a wall on the Mexican Border. He tweeted big day planned on National Security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall building a 2,000 mile wall along the Mexican Border was one of trumps key election promises. Hes said the wall would cost 8 billion and will be up to a0 feet high. The new president is also expected to approve Immigration Restrictions on seven mostly muslim countries in the middle east and africa iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, syria, and yemen. And trump wants to make all us cities co operate to deport Illegal Immigrants a move aimed at so called Sanctuary Cities like san francisco, where local police do not help with most deportations. Our washington correspondent david willis has more. Were going to have our borders nice and strong. Were going to build a wall. Were going to