Cameron and Osborne were in no doubt, according to Nick Clegg quoted in the i yesterday. They were against building social housing because it would "create more Labour voters".
So what should one make of the headline of that article: "71% of Tory voters want more social housing"? There has to be caution about any opinion survey, even one conducted by a leading polling company like YouGov. What sort of answer you get depends very much on the way a question is put. Even so, there seems to be a recognition even by Daily Mail readers that owner-occupation is not the be-all and end-all.
Some 71 per cent of people who voted Conservative in the 2019 general election said they agreed that there needed to be more social housing [...] An overwhelming majority of Britons - 82 per cent - also agreed that it was "difficult" for young people in the UK to access adequate housing.
So it was good strategy for Sir Ed and his English local authority election team to backtrack from last winter's naked appeal to mortgage-payers and to concentrate on issues which concern everybody, such as the failure of crime prevention and environmental degradation as a result of weak regulation.
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