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this statesman podcast I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'm joined by John

Elage editor of City Metric and Stephen Bush editor of the Staggers to talk about

the centerpiece of the Troy Manifesto a new right to buy policy then Stephen and I catch up on what

he found out on the campaign trail in Wales. The centerpiece of the Tory Manifesto launched this week was a promise to extend right to buy to tenants of Housing Association homes.

John Elage, our editor of Citrimetric joins us to tell us why he thinks it's a bad idea and

also in the studio, I call it studio, it's a broom cupboard, is Stephen Bush editor of

the Stagger's.

John, first of all, tell us about the policy, the original policy, the classic right to buy in the 1980s.

Very popular Thatcher's dream of a home, property owning democracy. What were the downsides of it?

Well, it was an incredibly popular policy as you say because for, you know, quite clear

political reasons that if basically giving homes to tenants at a discount is going to be

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