Boris Johnson says no-confidence vote win ‘decisive’ despite mass Tory rebellion
Boris Johnson confirmed plans to extend the right to buy to tenants of housing association homes.
He said there are 2.5 million households whose homes belong to associations, saying "they're trapped, they can't buy, they don't have the security of ownership, they can't treat their home as their own or make the improvements that they want".
Mr Johnson added that some associations have treated tenants with "scandalous indifference".
However, the government’s right to buy plan has been labelled a “dangerous gimmick,” by housing charity Shelter with the group’s chief executive calling on the prime minister to “stop wasting time” on failed policies.
Shelter CEO Polly Neate said the government’s promise to replace sold social homes through Right to Buy “has flopped.”
“The government needs to stop wasting time on the failed policies of the past and start building more of the secure social homes this country actually needs.”
