Tory twists and turns on knocking down housing

Anand Menon

From @LabourList

UPDATE: Stephen Cowan has responded to your comments below:

In this video, the Tory Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council Stephen Greenhalgh – who David Cameron recently appointed head of the Conservative Party Local Government Innovation Unit – is forced to admit that his Administration is in secret talks to knock down residents’ homes after a barrage of questions from the people affected.

Stephen Cowan, the Labour leader in Conservative run Hammersmith and Fulham, said the council “hopes to follow in the footsteps of Westminster and repatriate people on average and low incomes out of their borough – possibly to the Thames Gateway”.

On LabourHome, Labour’s Housing Minister John Healey said “the Conservatives don’t see housing as a vital public service, and they don’t believe that people on low incomes can have decent, secure homes. Social housing is not safe in their hands. Eight million people – four million families – can’t trust the Tories with their home.”

More from LabourList

DONATE HERE

We provide our content free, but providing daily Labour news, comment and analysis costs money. Small monthly donations from readers like you keep us going. To those already donating: thank you.

If you can afford it, can you join our supporters giving £10 a month?

And if you’re not already reading the best daily round-up of Labour news, analysis and comment…

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY EMAIL