Are The Conservatives Hamstrung On Housing?

Last month Matt Singh crunched data to show that the UK ‘youthquake’ was more a ‘rentquake’ because private renters more than any other group surged to vote Labour at last year’s general election. Now, the latest Ipsos MORI Issues Index – the longest running barometer of public concern – has housing on 22%, below only September and October 1974 among 408 monthly measures. True, housing is well below the NHS and Brexit which are very much top of mind