John Prescott is “strangling” the right to buy scheme and preventing people from buying their own homes, the Conservatives claimed today. Accusing the deputy prime minister of being wedded to “old-fashioned socialism”, they insist the government has consistently undermined the scheme first introduced by the Tories under the 1980 Housing Act. On the 25th anniversary … Continue reading Tories accuse Prescott of ‘strangling’ right to buy