Cameron: The only poll I am interested in is the one on polling day
Gary Gibbon quizzes Mr Cameron on the Right to Buy policy announced as the centerpiece of the manifesto today.
He tells Mr Cameron that “just about every housing expert” says Governments have a terrible track record of replacing the stock when it is sold off “why on earth should it be different next time?”
Mr Cameron says that some recent council houses in central London have been sold off for more than a million pounds and that has led to “not one house being built but a dozen”.
The Prime Minister has also said that he’s not that interested in polls, because different polls can always be pointed to in campaigns but the key thing is setting out what you want to do and why you want to do it.
He is quizzed on why he won’t go into detail on the £12 billion of welfare cuts, asked why he can be “so clear on the nice stuff and so unclear on the nasty stuff”.
The prime minister says that the coalition managed £20 billion of cuts in the last parliament and “we are saying we need £12 billion in this parliament”.
He says that the party has set out the biggest change of freezing working age benefits, such as unemployment benefit, but doesn’t give any more detail on cuts we have not heard about before which would be needed to get close to the £12 billion figure.