Harry Scoffin

Harry Scoffin is a housing campaigner and the founder of Free Leaseholders.

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Conservatives

Thatcherism’s ownership revolution isn’t over

How can people without capital be expected to believe in capitalism? This is the challenge of our age, as ‘own nothing and be happy’ hardens into a new dividing line in Western politics. Westminster risks ignoring the emerging political economy of housing, even as public anger grows. Green Party leader Zack Polanski is already courting […]

Housing

If the Tories are really the party of homeownership, reforming our feudal leasehold system should be a top priority

Last week the Mail on Sunday reported that young, property-less voters would punish the Conservatives at the next general election. Having dropped radical planning liberalisation, and facing accusations of having nothing to offer aspirant homeowners (save for allowing ‘Street Votes’), the Government is desperately trying to find a transformative housing policy that is electorally popular, […]

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