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Labour’s modest reheat of help to buy is worth a try
Turning to George Osborne’s playbook may look awkward, but cutting deposits to 2.5% could jolt a housebuilding sector stuck in a funk • What you need to know about Your First Home scheme There may be three reasons why the Labour government has hesitated until now to reheat the Tories’ decade-long help to buy scheme. First, the inflationary risks of throwing subsidies at the housing market at a moment when wider…