Angela Rayner has admitted she’s preparing to rip up Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy scheme, a policy the housing secretary benefited from herself when she bought her first home at a 25% discount, making a £48,500 profit when she sold it later. Guido remembers Rayner telling the Press Gallery how “proud” she was to be able to own her first home – which was why, she said, she kept it while her husband and children were living at a separate address. Surely she wants others to have that same feeling? 

Speaking to Sky News this morning, Rayner said: “there has to be a balance, we’ve got to make sure we have the social housing…We are doing a consultation on it.” Pulling up the ladder behind her…