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By the book: All passion rent

4 July 2013

1:00 PM

4 July 2013

1:00 PM

According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, 81 per cent of British people want to own their homes within the next ten years. George Osborne is the latest in a long line of politicians, including Thatcher and Macmillan, who have made our nation’s obsession with outright ownership central to their policy.

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