Gove pledges more aid for first-time buyers
Daily Express|May 16, 2022
MINISTERS are planning an overhaul of banking rules to help adults still living in their parents' homes gain a foothold on the property ladder.
Martyn Brown
Gove pledges more aid for first-time buyers

Michael Gove, right, said the move will force lenders to be more generous to young borrowers.

His pledge comes after pollsters warned that voters in their 20s and 30s would abandon the Conservatives at the next election if their ambitions to own a home continue to be thwarted.

In 1995, two-thirds of people aged between 25 and 34 owned their own property - now only about a quarter do.

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