Cameron: I have no romantic attachment to the European Union

Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday unveiled plans to spur home ownership, striking at criticism that his government is failing growing numbers of Britons who are priced out of the housing market.

The pledge is part of a bid to increase the amount of homes for first-time buyers in an effort to shift from “generation rent” to “generation buy”. It basically means homes that were only affordable to rent. In 1975, then Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher said she would transform Britain into a “home-owning democracy”, a promise that helped her become prime minister in 1979.

APHC chief executive John Thompson commented “The Prime Minister’s latest measure is likely to provide a welcome boost to the UK’s construction industry”.

The policy change means that the definition of affordable housing now includes starter homes, as well as homes for rent.

He told told the conference he had “no romantic attachment to the European Union and its institutions” and would “fight hard in this renegotiation – so that we can get a better deal and the best of both worlds”.

“I believe we can make this era – these 2010s – a defining decade for our country, the turnaround decade, one which people will look back on and say: ‘That’s the time when the tide turned, when people no longer felt the current going against them but working with them'”. The Prime Minister’s address at the Conservative Party Conference promised “an all-out-assault” on poverty in Britain, reports The Guardian.

The Department for Communities and Local Government will urge councils to be flexible on the type of affordable housing on any specific site, to make sites viable and get homes built. “This is a welcome sign that many rank-and-file Labour supporters want to keep us focused on the immediate concerns of the public rather than re-running old battles that risk splitting Labour apart”, he said.

Cameron name-checked the main contenders yesterday in his speech – “Iron chancellor” George Osborne, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, “the great Conservative reformer”, and London mayor Boris Johnson, who earned a standing ovation.

“Over the next five years we will show that the deep problems in our society are not inevitable”, Cameron will say.

“The “starter homes” are realistic and they will benefit those on lower incomes, as property prices vary around the country”.

The very immigration causing the social division and housing crisis David Cameron is promising to solve, can not be contained while we live in a borderless Britain.