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Labour of course, have their own problems. These are illustrated perfectly today, with the news that General Election supremo, Alan Milburn, is seeking to wrap his party in Tory clothes once more by a massive extension of the right to buy so as to boost home ownership. The UK already has one of the highest levels of home ownership in Europe but it also has a number of other social problems as well, including growing homelessness and a massive shortage of affordable housing. This policy will not only set Alan Milburn on a collision course with Deputy Prime Minister,

If Black Wednesday was a defining moment that marked the inevitable collapse of John Major's Government, then yesterday may well go down as Michael Howard's equivalent. Somehow though, I think that things will not be so clear cut and that although the Conservatives will lose badly in the General Election, the appalling opinion poll results for them yesterday and the defection of retiring Wantage MP, Robert Jackson, are not so much turning points but markers on a long slippery slope that started on that day on 16 September 1992. Like Nick Barlow I will enjoy seeing the Conservatives secure