Why the Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The housing crisis is emerging as one of the key battlegrounds ahead of the general election, especially for millennial voters. But as Labour turns up the heat announcing policy, the issue is exposing divides and flaring up accusations of NIMBYism within the Conservative party.
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| 0:37.0 | MPs are back in Westminster this week. |
| 0:40.0 | Recess isn't a holiday, they're quick to remind you. |
| 0:43.0 | They've been in their constituencies, back with their voters. |
| 0:46.0 | Not long after many local elections in England |
| 0:49.0 | where a new policy battleground heated up, the housing crisis, |
| 0:54.0 | and how to fix it. |
| 0:56.0 | And there are divisions not just between the parties, |
| 0:58.0 | but to take the Conservatives within them as well. |
| 1:02.0 | On one side, marking back to when Howard McMillan was housing secretary, |
| 1:06.0 | proponents of the Tory ideal of a home-owning nation. |
| 1:10.0 | We are the party of McMillan, |
| 1:12.0 | we're the party of appropriating democracy, |
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| 1:17.0 | and letting people build capital in their lives. |
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