The future of the Right To Buy scheme rests largely in the hands of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner When Harold Wilson was Labour prime minister in the late 1960s, up to a third of people in ...

Councillors in Sheffield have called on the government to scrap the Right to Buy housing scheme. Since the policy was ...

Local councils have called on the government to end the Right to Buy scheme for new council homes as they warned no change to ...

The UK government has launched a consultation seeking input on potential reforms to the Right to Buy scheme in England. This initiative aims to balance the opportunity for council tenants to own ...

Mr Prescott fears that the right-to-buy scheme, one of Margaret Thatcher's flagship policies of the 1980s, has resulted in a shortage of low-cost homes for key workers. The problem is now that ...

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested in a conversation with the Financial Times earlier this week that Labour could introduce a "right-to-buy" scheme which would allow private tenants to buy ...

According to Yorkshire Housing’s new report, since Right to Buy was introduced in 1980, over 2 million social homes have been sold, but only 2 per cent have been replaced.

Labour is worried people are buying properties faster than new ones are being built, but new rules could dampen demand in a scheme introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Right to Buy has ...

The right-to-buy scheme was introduced in 1980 by a Margaret Thatcher-led Conservative government as a way to enable more people to own their own homes. But it has led to a huge decline in the number ...