LOCATION,

Location, Location presenter Kirstie Allsopp gives short shrift to young people complaining about not being able to get on the housing ladder, saying they don’t understand about making economies and lowering expectations.

‘When young couples say to me they want to buy a flat but they’re also saving up to go on a trip around the world,’ she says, ‘I am gobsmacked.’

Indeed, when I showed my mother around my first flat she said: ‘That’s lovely darling, where’s the rest of it?’