Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Theresa May’s housing speech shows up her flaws

The National Housing Federation isn’t used to Prime Ministers attending its annual conference. In fact, it’s not used to getting to know the same housing minister from year to year, as the job is the subject of so many reshuffles. Today Theresa May proudly told the body that represents housing associations that she was the first Prime Minister in history to speak at this event, adding:

‘To me, that speaks volumes about the way in which social housing has, for too long and under successive governments, been pushed to the edge of the political debate.’

Her speech then went on to say that she had made it her ‘personal mission to fix our broken housing system’ and that she wanted to end the ‘stigma’ around social housing.

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