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Phillipson hits back over council house sale ‘smear’
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|June 30, 2026
Tories attack education secretary over ‘class-war hypocrisy’
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has accused the Conservatives of a “manufactured smear” after she was criticised over the profit her family made from the sale of her mother’s council house.
Over the weekend it was reported that the sale of Ms Phillipson’s childhood home generated a profit of £90,000, with the Conservatives accusing senior Labour figures of “pulling up the drawbridge” through restrictions to the Right to Buy scheme after many Labour politicians benefited from it.
The Mail on Sunday reported that in 1990, when Ms Phillipson was six years old, her mother Clare bought their two-bedroom council house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, for £9,600 under the Right to Buy scheme brought in by the Conservatives.
At that stage the price represented a 38 per cent discount on the £15,490 market value.
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