I said it did not reduce the housing stock, which it did not; for each reduction in social housing stock was a corresponding increase in private housing. For each house that was sold removed the requirement by social housing by the same amount. The demand for social housing was the same before as it was after with no increase or decrease.

What I do find bizarre is that home ownership and tenancy are issues that have blighted the poorest in society since time immemorial and here we have a policy which allows those to own their own home - previously the preserve of the rich and middle classes - being derided by the left even. madness.

NB why shouldn't the Tories want the electorate to vote for them? You seem to think only the left have the answer. That is of course absurd. If one political thought had all the answers governments the world over would adhere to that way of thinking.