Was Lisa Nandy flaunting her leadership credentials last week by wooing 4.6 million households with her radical anti-leasehold speech in the Commons amid reported shadow cabinet frustration at Starmer? After a confidence motion scare, Boris now looks to Thatcher for inspiration on housing policy and has pledged to finish her ‘right to own’ leasehold reforms
By Harry Scoffin
Labour will be tougher than the Tories when it comes to “feudal” leaseholds, shadow levelling-up secretary Lisa Nandy has insisted in reply to controversial government plans to boost homeownership through a Right to Buy “benefits to bricks” scheme for welfare claimants in housing association stock.
