PM brings forward Help To Buy
David Cameron has confirmed that he plans to bring forward a scheme of state-backed mortgages to help increase home ownership to next week. The so-called Help To Buy scheme had not been due for another three months.
PM: Help to Buy will stop aspirations being 'trashed'
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that bringing forward the state-backed Help to Buy scheme is good news as it will stop people's home buying aspirations being "trashed".
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: "As Prime Minister I'm not going to stand back while people's aspirations to get on the housing ladder, to own their own flat, to own their own home are being trashed.
"That's why we need to act", he added.
Courtesy of BBC's The Andrew Marr Show
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