Even though it is more than 40 years old, the changes wrought by Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy policy can still be felt in Britain today. It established the story the Conservative...
Plans to help lower-paid workers use housing benefit cash to buy homes will be announced later on Thursday so that more people can fulfil “an important desire of the human...
The average cost of filling a typical family car with petrol has exceeded £100 for the first time.Figures from data firm Experian Catalist show the average price of a litre...
When Chris Green, CEO of Citizens Advice Southwark, began his career in the 90s, his workload was mostly helping people with consumer issues – faulty appliances and so on. Once,...
A tale of Big Tech and whizzy financial lenders moving faster than plodding regulators and governments is hardly novel but two news stories this week hammered home the contrast in...
Boris Johnson’s attempt to reset his troubled premiership has received a double blow after petrol prices had their biggest daily rise in 17 years and a leading international thinktank said...
Boris Johnson will try to reset his beleaguered premiership on Thursday with a speech on housing and the cost of living that was condemned by opponents as “hot air and...
How do you fix a housing crisis that has its foundations in policy decisions that go back decades? Unsurprisingly, there is not one answer.The issues of high house prices –...
John Lewis has chosen Bromley, Ealing and Reading as the pilot locations for its venture into building branded homes for the rental market, as the staff-owned retailer tries to create...