Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, joined Sky News this morning after the Grenfell Tower inquiry published its final report on Wednesday. Reaction will also likely continue after Dame Priti Patel was knocked out of the Tory leadership contest yesterday.
Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, has said the right-to-buy scheme does not 'serve taxpayers' in its current iteration, as Labour reviews increased discounts introduced a decade ago.She told Sky News: 'The current scheme as it stands, I don't think it necessarily serves the taxpayers who invest in social housing and making sure we've got the right balance.
'People should have the right to buy their home, but I also think it has to be balance because we've got to make sure we've got the social housing the country desperately needs.'Far too many families at the moment are in temporary accommodation because we don't have social housing.'Kay Burley points out that Ms Rayner benefited from right-to-buy in the past, having purchased her own council home in 2007.
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