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…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”