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5 April 2015
  • George Osborne pledges ‘housing revolution’

    12:58 PM
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    A Conservative government would aim to double the number of first-time buyers by 2020, George Osborne declared on Sunday.

    05_telegraph_1500The chancellor promised a “revolution” in home ownership if the party is returned to power at the general election on 7 May.

    Labour unveiled plans on Saturday to take the new ISA scheme for first-time buyers announced by Mr Osborne in the Budget and use it to finance wide-scale house building.

    But Mr Osborne told the Sunday Telegraph he was determined to push even harder to open home ownership to more people.

    “I think we can deliver a revolution in home ownership,” the Chancellor told the newspaper.

    “In the next parliament I would like to see over a million more people helped into home ownership by a Conservative government.

    “I would like to see us double the number of first time buyers up to half-a-million. That is the kind of level we saw in the 1980s.”

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5 April 2015