The Chancellor is today meeting major lenders and housebuilders to discuss how the second (mortgage guarantee) element of the Government’s Help to Buy programme will work. While the policy has been criticised for its ropey economics, it may be more successful politically. Indeed, the risk that it pushes up house prices may be positive for the Conservatives’ election chances in 2015.
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