Sentence examples for Giving council from inspiring English sources

Giving council tenants the opportunity to buy the homes they were living in - at a generous discount - was one of the defining policies of the Thatcher era.

As well as cutting the welfare bill, it is meant to ease the housing shortage by giving council tenants whose children have grown up and left home an incentive to move to somewhere smaller.

But it is feeble to insist that it can only be done by giving council housing to the private- sector financial interests which permeate the office of the deputy prime minister and its task force.

Actually, opinion polls had turned before the war began, helped by better economic news and by the policy of giving council tenants the right to buy their homes at a discount, which converted thousands of Labour-voting tenants into homeowning Tories.

It's a weaselly use of language, designed to appeal to Tory and Ukip voters who want to think of themselves as decent human beings without giving too much away to foreigners; "British" values are for people who think universal human rights are about silly things such as accusing UK soldiers of war crimes and giving council houses to terrorists.

But giving struggling homeowners the right to rent their property from the council the opposite of Margaret Thatcher's 1980 policy of giving council tenants the "right to buy" their home marks new thinking on state-funded housing, which has been in long decline.

Even so, giving councils more power is worth a try.

This government is giving councils more control because they understand best their local area's needs.

Reviewing local government finance, and giving councils a general power of competence.

He committed to giving councils powers to purchase land from developers if it is unused.

The first is that political devolution risks being tokenistic without financial devolution giving councils more power over taxes.