article_snippet.sent: On a campaign visit in St Austell, Cornwall, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the move could help 'particularly in such a wonderful part of the country as this where there are so many people with second homes and where the prices because of that are way beyond the reach of many young people wanting to get their feet on the first rung of the property ladder'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg, who visited Newlyn fish market and harbour with St Ives candidate Andrew George as St Ives candidate Andrew George launched St Ives candidate Andrew George countryside charter, told ITV News: 'ITV News is giving councils the freedom to raise a bit of money from those who holiday in a community but don't live in a community all year round so that local public services can be properly supported for those people who do live in those people who do live in their community all year round community all year round. '
article_snippet.sent: The Deputy PM and Lib Dem MP
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg, who has been warned Andrew George party faces near-wipeout in its Westcountry stronghold, said Andrew George wants to 'play on the conscience' of second homeowners.
article_snippet.sent: Andrew George said Mr Clegg, who has been warned his party faces near-wipeout in its Westcountry stronghold needed to realise that local people were being priced out of the property market
article_snippet.sent: and it was not in Mr Clegg, who has been warned his party faces near-wipeout in its Westcountry stronghold interest for the rural community to 'wither on the vine'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg (right) added that many people who had second homes in Cornwall were 'acutely aware that there is this big, burning local issue about the availability of housing for local youngsters'.