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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Bulls, and I'm from a James Scythianist for Hardman,

and Boris Johnson's reset has begun. Today the Prime Minister has given a speech on housing policy.

James, to kick things off, can you just talk us through these new announcements and perhaps give us

an indication of how fully formed they are? So that there are three big new policies here.

One is a right to buy for housing association tenants, but that is going to have to be

negotiated with for housing association. So the government can't just do this by

dictating. They are going to have to come from an agreement, and the government have been

promising this since 2015. So there is that question of how they get a deal, and also

question of how it's going to be funded. The government say that you know, today's speech

doesn't require any more government spending, but I understand that Michael Gov is of the view

that this money should not come out of his department budget because he's also meant to be

doing leveling up and all sorts of things which cost money. So there is that

question there. Then the second one is attempt to change the benefit system to make it more.

In the words of one, Johnson, I kind of less anti-ownership than it is now. So the argument goes that

if you've saved in a lifetime ISO or right to buy ISO, you should be able to allow to accumulate

savings and still claim benefits. And also that you should be able to use your housing benefit

to pay your mortgage. At the moment on the grounds that, you know, why does it make sense

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