Executive offers new housing association £300m 'gift' after promising to end subsidies

Tommy Sheridan, leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, said the change suggested GHA was unable to meet its promises without massive public support. "The idea that this money is available for the GHA Ltd but not for elected local authorities betrays the minister's political ideology and that of her New Labour colleagues. They are prepared to support mass sell-offs, but not mass investment in publicly owned stock." The Herald