Gove’s Chance to Finish Thatcher’s Reforms

“There is no prouder word in our history than ‘freeholder’”, Margaret Thatcher once said. In opposition in the sixties the young Tory housing and land spokesperson championed the policy of leasehold enfranchisement, which Maggie claimed would create a property-owning democracy – long before she hit upon the idea of selling the freeholds of council homes to tenants.[…] Read the rest