The Liberal Democrats shied away from demanding the suspension of the right to buy in high-demand areas at their annual conference this week
Instead, the party merely called for a more "flexible" approach.

Speaking at the conference in Brighton, housing spokesman Adrian Sanders said: "We need a more flexible system rather than one that says right to buy should be stopped." First-time tenants could be offered homes that were exempt from the controversial policy and then moved to other accommodation when they could afford to buy, Sanders suggested.

But Baroness Maddock, the party's housing spokeswoman in the House of Lords, had a different opinion.

Pointing to an affordable housing "crisis", she said it was counterproductive to have one right-to-buy policy across the entire country. The policy had failed to create the mixed communities it had intended, she said.

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Housing Today