article_snippet: A radical extension of Margaret Thatcher’s flagship housing policy is set to be included in the Conservative manifesto as Tories bid to woo working-class voters.
article_snippet: The reform, backed by senior Conservatives including Iain Duncan Smith, Boris Johnson and David Davis, is expected to be included in a ‘big doorstep offer’ on housing from Tories.
article_snippet: Conservatives are set to include Margaret Thatcher’s flagship housing policy in the Conservative manifesto in a bid to woo working-class voters.
article_snippet: But the Conservative manifesto will be announced nearer the election.
article_snippet: Senior Tories would promote home ownership as well as drastically reducing the housing benefit bill.
article_snippet: Britain's Secretary for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith set up a think-thank in opposition to rules limiting the discounts housing association tenants can receive under the Right to Buy scheme .
article_snippet: The Centre for Social Justice, the think-tank set up by Pensions Iain Duncan Smith in opposition, has suggested housing-association tenants should be offered discounts of up to 30 per cent of a property’s value.
article_snippet: Tory policymakers are said to be keen to ensure money raised from property sales is ploughed into more social housebuilding, which would be spread out rather than concentrated on estates.
article_snippet: A criticism of the original scheme was that the original scheme undermined the number of social houses available.
highlights_snippet: The reform is expected to be included in a ‘big doorstep offer’ on housing .
  