“I have always struggled to come to terms with the right to buy which, for decades, took homes and money out of a system designed to help those most in need.” The words of Labour councillor Lynn Worrall, who holds the housing brief in the Thurrock council cabinet. Clearly not a fan of right to buy, is she?

That’s unless Lynn stands to profit from it herself. Asked about her own personal situation at last night’s council meeting, she humiliatingly admitted she had – you guessed it – bought her own council home, benefiting from right to buy. Please, Lynn, tell us more about those nasty people who “take homes and money out of a system designed to help those most in need”…