Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps is never off-message, knowingly or otherwise. He gave an interview to The Spectator earlier this week in which he dismissed criticism of the coalition’s affordable housing programme, attacked Ukip and Nigel Farage, and laid out the reasons for voting Conservative at the local elections. You can listen to the whole interview above. Here are some selected quotes:
Shapps on affordable housing:
‘Look at the coalition’s record over 5 years… We will have put £19bn of both private and public funds into affordable homes and produced 170,000 new affordable homes… I can exclusively that I’m very confident we’ll deliver, and probably over deliver, within the 5 years of this parliament.’ Shapps on local government reform:
‘I think if you’re going to draw wider lessons from Labour’s whole approach and our long-term economic plan it would be this.
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