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* * * * * "No government can run businesses and create wealth. What governments can do is create the best possible conditions for wealth creation. So I believe the next Conservative government should set itself a simple economic objective: to make Britain the best place in the world to do business." David Cameron MP, Speech to the Centre for Policy Studies. |
'Right to Buy' News Millions of social tenants have been handed the keys to home ownership after the Government launched a reinvigorated Right to Buy. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that more than two million tenants will be given the opportunity to buy their own homes with dramatically increased discounts of up to £75,000. The new policy will reverse years of declining discounts for tenants, which made Right to Buy meaningless in many parts of the country. Fewer than 3,700 sales were made last year compared to a peak of 84,000 less than 10 years ago. Launching the reinvigorated scheme, Prime Minister David Cameron said: "I want many more people to achieve the dream of home ownership. In the 80s, Right to Buy helped millions of people living in council housing achieve their aspiration of owning their own home. 'Be Patient'says Former Chancellor Labour needs to "learn a little patience" when demanding economic growth, former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson has said. He told peers that the government would take a "short cut" to prosperity were one available. Lord Lawson, who was a very successful Chancellor from 1983 to 1989, was speaking after figures showing a rise in unemployment were published. UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, official figures show, but this is the smallest increase in almost a year. Labour's Lord Barnett had earlier asked: "Is there not a major problem the chancellor (George Osborne) has concentrated to such a degree on the deficit that he has lost track of where he is taking (the economy)? Lord Lawson replied: "Is it not the case Lord Barnett, despite his great experience, has to learn a little patience? "Is it not the case that, if there were some short cut to resume growth, the government would certainly take it?" Lord Lawson said that it was "important that politicians are honest with the people". East Yorkshire MP Greg Knight criticised Labour's approach to the economy: "The idea that we should make increased spending commitments now, shows that Labour has leart nothing from their 13 years of failure." Greg's Book of Insults East Yorkshire MP Greg Knight has a new book published. Entitled 'Dishonourable Insults' it contains 100 years of political invective. It is available at all good bookshops priced £14.99 and is published by the Robson Press. An amusing look at politics and an ideal present.
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