Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
January’s Trades Council meeting agreed to submit a response to the Government’s consultation on “Reforming the Right to Buy”. Right to Buy is the scheme that allows tenants of public housing to buy the houses they rent at a discounted rate. It has been, in our view, one of the reasons why housing policy is…
In 2023 the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) noted that: “From the UK’s ‘Plan for Growth’ in 2011 to Jeremy Hunt’s ‘Growth Plan’ ……. there have been a total of 11 different economic strategies or ’plans for growth’ over the last 13 years”. What’s more, they have all stirred the same ashes over and over…