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Evening Standard
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David Bond

Boris Johnson unveils housing shake up in bid to boost premiership

Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to boost home ownership and address the UK’s faltering economic growth in a bid to reboot his troubled premiership.

Days after suffering a major blow to his authority when 41 per cent of Conservative MPs voted against him in a crunch confidence vote, the Prime Minister used a speech in Blackpool to set out plans to extend the right to buy scheme to millions of people who rent their homes from housing associations.

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