Right to buy is wrong, and Labour must take action | Letters

Readers respond to Aditya Chakrabortty’s article on the council housing selloff initiated by Margaret ThatcherIt shows a contemptible want of courage that Keir Starmer’s government fails to follow the examples of Scotland and Wales by simply ending the right-to-buy scam (Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff, a crisis hidden in plain sight, 13 February).There are 700,000 long-term empty homes in England, which is almost double the number of homeless peo