David Cameron to put right to buy at heart of Tory manifesto

A Tory government would grant 1.3 million housing association tenants the right to buy their homes, David Cameron will announce today.

The extension of the Right to Buy scheme is a centrepiece of the Conservative manifesto for the general election.

Mr Cameron will say the manifesto offers voters “security at every stage of your life”, with help for those looking for training or a job, trying to buy a home, raising a family or relying on childcare and the NHS.

The extension of the Right to Buy policy represents an effort to revive the Tory dream of a property-owning democracy, after years in which the proportion of people owning their own home began to decline for the first time in a century as increasing numbers of young adults – often described as “Generation Rent” – have found themselves priced out of the market.