HOUSING MINISTER LET ME DOWN

SOCIAL worker Anthony Kamya ( pictured) paid Persimmon £ 250,000 for a four-bedroom home in 2016 in South Derbyshire.

The Help To Buy scheme aided the father-of-two and wife Haleema but their contract includes £150 annual ground rent which increases in line with inflation, and permission fees for changes to the property.

He complained to his MP, Heather Wheeler, a housing minister, but was dismayed to hear that in Parliament she had said the state can do little to help leaseholders stuck with toxic contracts.