Right to Buy's days could be numbered as Burnham curbs scheme

• More than two million council homes in England - about 40% of the stock - have been sold under Right to Buy since Margaret Thatcher introduced it in 1980. • Andy Burnham is removing the right entirely from new-build social homes in a bill now going through Parliament, having already cut the maximum discount; he compares selling social homes during a housing crisis to 'trying to fill a bath with the plug out'. • The government calculates England will now see a net gain of 18,000 council homes over the next decade instead of a projected net loss of 26,000; the Conservatives and Reform UK...