Cameron woos voters on homes, childcare

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has launched his Conservative Party's election manifesto with a pledge to allow up to 1.3 million more social housing tenants to buy their homes and to extend free childcare for under-5s.

CAMERON urged voters to let him "build on foundations" laid over the last five years of the Conservatives' coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, claiming he had "turned a great recession into a great recovery."

"At the heart of this manifesto is a simple proposition," he said."We are the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life."He promised to build 400,000 new homes and reduce income tax for low earners if the Conservatives continue in government after the May 7 election.The prime minister also pledged 30 hours a week of free childcare for three and four-year-olds "worth STG5,000 a year".Pro-Conservative media said Cameron's housing pledge revived the policy of former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher and was an attempt to win working-class votes in next month's parliamentary elections."Maggie's right-to-buy dream is back," the Daily Express said in a front page headline, referring to Thatcher's policy of selling local authority housing in the 1980s.Conservative strategists believed the right-to-buy pledge would "win favour among working-class voters in marginal constituencies," The Times said.But Ruth Davison of the National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations managing some 2.5 million homes, said the Conservatives' plan would not solve Britain's housing crisis.Tenants in social housing already have "good secure homes on some of the country's cheapest rents," Davison said."It won't help the millions of people in private rented homes who are desperate to buy but have no hope of doing so, nor the three million adult children living with their parents because they can't afford to rent or buy," she said.Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband launched his party's manifesto on Monday, promising to cut the budget deficit, tackle low pay and job insecurity, improve the National Health Service, and expand controls on immigration.Opinion polls put Labour and the Conservatives roughly level with about 33 per cent support, followed by the right-wing UK Independence Party on 14 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on just under 10 per cent.

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