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Hello and welcome to you coffee Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

In an interview of the Times this week,

levelling up Secretary Michael Gove suggested that the country's broken housing market could cause young people to lose faith in democracy.

This morning, Laura Koonsburg showed Gove a variety of statistics emphasizing the worsening of the problem

since the Conservatives came to power and asked him who was responsible.

You said yourself not long ago the system is broken but let's start by giving the audience a real

picture of what is going on with some statistics so let's have a look at this you can

see there how much the prospect of owning your own home has changed.

Earnings have doubled since 1997. House prices have increased four and a half times.

A huge, huge change.

Then 10 years ago if we look at our next graphic

we can show people the kind of impact that has had

on social housing.

Social housing, a hundred and eighty thousand of them have been lost since between 2012 and 2022 while the Conservatives

have been in charge.

That has resulted in such huge pressure being put on.

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