The shadow communities secretary described housing as 'fundamental human right'
The Labour party have plans to restore social housing as the second largest tenure in the UK according to Lisa Nandy. During a speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool the shadow communities secretary outlined a series of housing policies aimed at boosting council housebuilding and homeownership.
She added: “Because security in your home, the right to make your home your own and most of all the right to live in a home fit for human habitation is non-negotiable. Because housing isn’t a market, it’s a fundamental human right.” She also mocked Prime Minister Liz Truss’s passionate speech about pork markets during the Conservative Party conference in 2014. Referring to the tax-cutting budget unveiled by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng last week, Ms Nandy said: “Handing £55,000 to millionaires while people can’t afford to pay their rent, feed their kids and heat their homes.
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