Boris Johnson unveils bumper £5bn ‘new deal’ recovery plan with 1/3 off homes for first-time buyers

BORIS Johnson has today promised thousands of discounted homes for first-time buyers in a bumper multi-billion pound package to help Britain bounce back from coronavirus.

In a major speech in Dudley this morning the PM vowed to get the country back on track with a "New Deal" programme of building and investment - and fast tracking £5billion of spending.

The PM vowed a Roosevelt-style plan to pick up the country and get it going again after three months of shutdown.

And he announced what was billed as "the most radical reforms to our planning system since the Second World War" by cutting red tape to revitalise our high streets.

He told voters in the Blue Wall seats the Government is on a “mission to unite and level up” the UK.

As he revealed his plan to help Britain get back on its feet, he said: "It is time not just for a new deal, but a fair deal for the British people.

"We are preparing now - slowly, cautiously - to come out of hibernation.

"If we are to deal with the coming economic aftershock, then this Covid crisis is also the moment to address the problems in our country that we have failed to tackle for decades."

Alongside his programme he revealed £12billion of funding for a homes plan that will support up to 180,000 new affordable homes for ownership and rent over the next 8 years.

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Boris Johnson unveils bumper £5bn ‘new deal’ recovery plan with a third off thousands of homes for first-time buyers

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[raymondmajer]

Don't destroy our countryside Boris, it's the only thing left worth having!!

[flmz]

Trump and Boris are the best, Im tired of stoned faced political correctness

[henrydemonfreid]

HS2 is madness. It already costs average joe nearly a weeks wage to get from London - Glasgow and back on the

[faheemmiah]

Yeah you'll build them in poor quality. These new homes don't last as long as the homes built back in ww2.

[uktravel]

Anyone moaning about mass immigration should explain how, in 2020 when the UK's functionally illiterate population has reached approximately 20% of the population, we are to get skilled workers from to cope with this labour shortage.

[keepitsteel]

I have total faith in you, uncle fester.

[w.s.alford]

Don’t like him, but it sounds like a good plan

[likklej]

If it happens ok but basically a lot of the cash was in the pipeline already, and was held up or cancelled trouble is we’re in amnesia

[paulhoskin]

If the government makes a house for 150000 and sells it for a they can build houses forever cant they say it won't cost them a penny of course if they did that all the house builders in the country would go out of business

[joldendoves]

What about depopulation ie sending them back

[AmsterdamPedicabTours]

This man built just one HUGE Sinking ship called UK

[georgetaylor]

Just lower stamp duty and incentivise older home-owners whose kids have left home that are hanging onto to 4/5 bedroom houses cos its uneconomical to down-size. This will free up existing housing stock immediately .

[roxiogamer]

Damn this is kinda insane!! Thanks Boris :D

[WildPhotoShooter]

Well done PM, gets the young uns on the housing ladder.

[mrwhitelivesmatter]

We are slow to build houses because the farmers own most of the land

[robertdouville]

What is the 1/3 off? a down payment provided by the state!? Sound strange for somebody from Canada like me!

[lkr]

I really love his drive, passion and faith in our country

[frederick]

How easy is it for a working class family to buy a house nowadays.

[uktravel]

Given that the UK's annual GDP (national income) last year was £2.2trillion, this is not a lot of money.

[maggie]

England will be just concrete one day!. It is only a small country. It is such a shame, all the land is going.