Tories fail to build any of 200,000 homes promised in 2015

National Audit Office says no starter homes have been built despite election pledge The then prime minister, David Cameron, in 2015 at the launch of the Conservative party manifesto in Swindon. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Successive Conservative governments have failed to deliver a single new “starter home” despite promising to build 200,000 by 2020, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. The party’s 2015 manifesto committed to building the homes across England to be sold exclusively to first-time buyers under the age of 40, to help young people take their first step on…