No-one has an automatic right to home ownership

I’ve had enough of calls to help out first-time-buyers who can’t afford to buy a new home. There’s no law that extends the right of home ownership to everyone in the UK. You have to work for your first home. Sorry to lay it out in black and white, but buying a house involves a lot of hard graft and a lot of sacrifice. When I was twenty one I had to sacrifice everything to get my first deposit together. I didn’t go out for two years. I’ve been making up for it ever since. Research suggests people aren’t saving so hard for their first home as they used to. Well-meaning liberals say fewer an...