Tories pledge new council housing

By Hiba Mahamadi | 15 May 2017

The Conservatives have pledged to build ‘thousands’ of council houses over the course of the next Parliament if re-elected next month.

Former housing minister Brandon Lewis said on the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme that the new housing would be funded from the £1.4bn set aside for capital expenditure, announced in the Autumn Statement.

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