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PM challenged by Corbyn on Inside Housing Right to Buy research

The prime minister has been challenged over Inside Housing’s recent investigation which revealed more than 40% of Right to Buy homes are now being privately let.

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During Prime Minister’s Questions today Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “Under the Tories homeownership has fallen by 200,000; under Labour it rose by one million. And 40% of all homes sold through Right to Buy are now in the private rented sector.”

Both leaders marked the six months since the Grenfell Tower fire and both will be attending a memorial tomorrow.

Ms May said: “This week marks the six-month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. I will be attending the national memorial service tomorrow and I’m sure I speak for members across the house when I say it remains at the forefront of our minds as a truly unimaginable tragedy that should never have happened.


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“Many who survived the fire lost everything that night and I can assure the house that we continue to do everything we can to support those affected and take the necessary steps to ensure it never happens again.”

Mr Corbyn said it was an “avoidable and tragic fire” which also “shone a light on the neglect of working class communities all over this country”.

He also challenged Ms May over the government’s pledge to replace homes sold through Right to Buy one-for-one.

Read about our Right to Buy investigation here

He said: “She promised one-for-one replacement of council housing sold off through Right to Buy, but just one in five council homes have been replaced and hundreds of thousands of people are on housing waiting lists.”

The PM responded: “We are increasing the flexibilities to enable councils to actually build homes; we’ve put more money into affordable housing. He talks about Right to Buy… we want to give people the opportunity to buy their own home – the Labour Party would take that opportunity away from them.”

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