MAY: I WILL FIX HOUSING CRISIS

PM woos voters with vow to end austerity

PRIME Minister Theresa May last night vowed to fix Britain’s broken housing market in a barnstorming speech to her Tory party.

The Conservative leader said she would also end austerity, solve the Brexit deadlock and build a Britain ready for a future outside the EU.

Mrs May laughed off her speech last year which was plagued by disasters, including being handed a spoof P45, suffering a coughing fit and letters on the set behind her falling down. The PM joked: “Can I just say, you will have to excuse me if I cough during the speech.

“I’ve been up all night supergluing the backdrop.”

Mrs May vowed to mend the lack of housing, start spending money again after a decade of austerity, and finally get a Brexit deal that takes back control of “our borders, laws, and money”. Addressing the housing crisis, the PM pledged to scrap the Government cap on how much councils can borrow for housing.

Mrs May then promised to end the years of austerity.

She explained: “Because you’ve made sacrifices, there are better days ahead. A decade after the financial crash, people need to know the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off.”

The PM also repeated her Brexit pledge that “Britain isn’t afraid to leave with no deal if we had to”.

Mrs May insisted “the resilience and ingenuity of the British people would see us through”.

Britain was at a “pivotal moment” but she said there were “no limits to what we can achieve”.