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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Politics
Lizzie Dearden

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David Cameron closed Conservative Party conference today with a keynote speech calling for a “national crusade” to build homes.

The Prime Minister set out his ambition to turn “generation rent” into “generation buy” and hail the Tories’ record on the economy.

 “When a generation of hard-working men and women in their 20s and 30s are waking up each morning in their childhood bedrooms, that should be a wake-up call for us,” he said.

“We need a national crusade to get homes built. That means banks lending, Government releasing land and - yes - planning being reformed.”

The Prime Minister told activists that the phrase “affordable homes” used by politicians for decades has been “deceptive” because it only covered homes for rent.

“What people want are homes they can actually own,” Mr Cameron said.

“After all, the officials who prepare the plans for the new homes, the developers who build them, the politicians who talk about them, most of these people own the homes they live in.

“Don't they realise other people want what they've got - a home of their own?”

Mr Cameron's speech nrought the curtain down on a four-day conference dominated by senior Tories including George Osborne, Boris Johnson and Theresa May jockeying for position in the looming race to succeed him as party leader.

He intends to step down at the end of his second term, after a full 10 years in Downing Street, which he hopes will come to be seen as a “defining decade” for Britain.  

Additional reporting by PA

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