I take the point that there is not one silver bullet to solve the housing crisis that we face, just like actually passing legislation to stop the right to buy is not going to be a silver bullet to stop the housing crisis that we face, in that we’re just not building enough houses. And, if you do not build enough houses, you create pent-up demand for that, the house price goes up, and ultimately you are excluding more and more people from that market. Of course, social housing is an important part of the balance that we can use, amongst many of the other tools that are available. That’s why the second part of this motion, as introduced by David, was touching on the need for the Government to actually have a coherent policy about how we are going to get new starts and completions up here in Wales. We were the only part of the United Kingdom where actually house building went backwards last year. New starts actually went backwards. Now, unless the Government can actually stimulate that demand through the planning system and assist house builders, local authorities and, indeed, local communities to work to develop these proposals, then your legislation is just going to fail and create a wider social chasm between the people who have already got their stake in society by owning their own homes and those who are unable to actually get on the housing ladder.

I well remember, when this first announcement was made last year by the Government here, that they would legislate if they were successful in the May election, and the lady from Swansea who did the BBC clip, in her own house that she bought in the 1980s, sitting in her living room and her saying, ‘Who would’ve thought that we would’ve actually owned our own home?’ She said, with great pride, that she now owned her own home. The first thing they did was change the windows in that house. The next thing they did was install central heating. The next thing they did was upgrade the living room. It’s about that sense of being, that sense of purpose, and we make no apologies as Welsh Conservatives about standing full square behind the right to buy being continued in Wales, as it is in other parts of the United Kingdom.

Instead of the Government using its legislative powers to outlaw this practice—. I will take the point that has been made by Jenny and other Labour Members here today that, in some areas, there might be a need to suspend; there might be a need to bring other tools to the table. But to actually outlaw a principle that has been so socially empowering over the last 30 or 35 years is such a retrograde step and really does show the divide now that is opening up. [Interruption.] I welcome that divide, because we will be championing the continuation—I will take the intervention in a minute—of the right to buy here in Wales. I’ll take the intervention.