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Council tenants should be allowed to relocate
Tories lure social tenants with ‘right to move’ pledge

By Alex Stevenson Affordable and social housing tenants would be handed a ‘right to move’ by a new Conservative government, shadow housing minister Grant Shapps announced today. Under Tory plans unveiled in their latest green paper good tenants would be given the right to force their landlord to sell their current property and use the… Read more »

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Televised: Expenses inquiry to be filmed
MPs’ expenses probe to be televised

By politics.co.uk staff The inquiry into MPs’ allowances is to be televised while it conducts its review. The move comes as emotions run high in parliament, with MPs increasingly convinced the drip-feed of revelations could fundamentally undermine parliamentary democracy. This weekend chancellor Alistair Darling and defence secretary Geoff Hoon joined home secretary Jacqui Smith and… Read more »