Councils looking to buy back ex-council properties

[Nicholas Wallwork]

If you cast your mind back to the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher, then leader of the Conservative party, introduced the right to buy scheme, this had a monumental impact upon homeownership across the UK. Not only were council tenants given the opportunity to acquire their property but, depending upon how long they had lived there, [...]

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The supply of council houses seems to vary whichever government is in power and we now seem to be in the bizarre situation where local authorities are buying back council houses which were sold in the past. Is this not a complete waste of public funds?