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It’s the turn of the Labour leader on West Norfolk Council, Francis Bone, to write our weekly Friday Politics column… The current housing crisis is the legacy of successive government housing policies following the introduction by the Thatcher-led Conservative government of ‘Right to Buy’ in the Housing Act 1980. The scheme let council tenants buy their homes at generous discounts, allowing those who could never previously have aspired to own their own home to get on the housing ladder. More than two million homes were sold under the scheme between 1980 and 1995. This policy was branded as vot…

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