UK housing model is ‘broken’, says Michael Gove

Housing secretary says ‘we desperately need more homes to bring ownership within reach of many more people’

Michael Gove has suggested that the housing model in the UK is ‘broken’ ((Ben Birchall/PA))

The UK’s housing model is “broken”, housing secretary Michael Gove has said.

The comments by the senior cabinet minister come in a foreword to a collection of essays by liberal conservative think tank Bright Blue.

First reported by The Times newspaper, Mr Gove writes: “We desperately need more homes to bring ownership within reach of many more people.”