Plans to help lower-paid workers use housing benefit cash to buy homes will be announced later on Thursday so that more people can fulfil “an important desire of the human heart”, Michael Gove has said.
The levelling up secretary said relaunching the right-to-buy scheme would also encourage more people to purchase their own property, but was criticised for previewing a “dangerous gimmick” and told to “stop wasting time on the failed policies of the past”.
