Selling the Roof

Stay in the Room Podcast · Aug 25, 2026 · 8m

Richard Tice stood up in Westminster on Monday and said something largely true.

There are about 1.3 million households on social housing waiting lists in England. Young people in work cannot get a social home, cannot afford to buy, and cannot afford to rent a flat on their own. They stay in their childhood bedroom, or they are thirty-four and sharing a kitchen with strangers. That is an accurate description of a real country. It is not a manufactured grievance, and anyone who treats the people nodding along as fools has already lost the argument.

Then he set out what Reform would do about it…