Boris Johnson follows Pickles in comparing Labour’s rent plans to bombing

Yesterday Tory Cabinet Minister Eric Pickles compared Labour’s plans to make the private rented sector more affordable to the “bombing” of cities. Evidently this unpleasant and ugly attack was part of a co-ordinated strategy – because Boris Johnson has repeated the same message. Here’s the headline of his Telegraph column:

Boris Bomb

So the man responsible for Britain’s Housing (Pickles) and the Mayor of the city with an epic housing crisis (Johnson) both think that Labour’s plan to help millions of renters is akin to bombing a city. They should be ashamed of themselves – but they won’t be…

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