{"id":26756,"date":"2023-10-24T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/?p=26756"},"modified":"2023-10-24T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:49:00","slug":"senior-tories-slam-partys-shameful-anti-housing-policy-at-cross-party-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/politics\/senior-tories-slam-partys-shameful-anti-housing-policy-at-cross-party-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Tories slam partys shameful anti-housing policy at cross-party rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senior Tory MPs this evening (October 24) slammed their own Government for standing against house building, and warned of dire electoral consequences if Rishi Sunak doesn\u2019t pick up the gauntlet thrown down by Sir Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n

The event, hosted at the free market thinktank, the Adam Smith Institute, and organised by campaign group Priced Out, featured a cross-party panel including activists from Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n

The central Westminster rally saw former Housing Secretary Brandon Lewis say he\u2019s \u201cembarrassed\u201d by the Tory party\u2019s anti-housing stance of recent years.<\/p>\n

Mr Lewis said there\u2019s an essential role for MPs from all sides, but especially within the Conservative Party, to talk about the housing crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to talk about it, we need to be very clear that we as politicians – not any particular party, but all of us – and certainly I\u2019m embarrassed by the fact that we in the Conservative Party have stepped away from where I thought we were moving – certainly up to 2016\/17 – about delivering more houses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was key; it\u2019s key for our economy because so much of our economy links to housing; GDP for our country has got a pretty clear trend of following the housing sector; and it\u2019s key morally and ethically as well because we\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019re providing houses for people in the next generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Tory Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government Sir Simon Clarke blasted his party\u2019s recent campaign in the Mid Bedfordshire by-election, which centred around anti-housing messaging and saw the Tories lose a 25,000 majority.<\/p>\n

Sir Simon said he fully accepts that the Conservatives have to \u201creclaim our mantle as the party of homeownership\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMid Bedfordshire needs to mark a line in the sand moment for a failed policy that is undesirable and unsustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s not the first time the tactic has been tried – essentially we adopted the same message in Selby and Ainsty earlier this year with much the same result, and it must therefore be the last time that this policy is adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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