| The housing crisis is an unresolved problem for the Coalition Government. The Conservative Party used to be the party of housing. Just as Labour captured the issue of health, so, in the last century, the Tories captured the issue of housing.
The number of completions of new houses peaked under Tory governments. In 1936-37, when Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister in the National Government, which was a Conservative-led coalition, a record 370,000 homes were built..............................................Full Article: Source
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