Cornish resorts line up to ban new holiday homes

BoJo has called for London councils to 'whack up' taxes on empty homes by a whopping 1000% in a bid to address the capital's housing shortage.

George Osborne's third pop at the country's finances this year saw housing - or the "crisis of home ownership" - near the top of the bill.

Ed Miliband has been getting even more animated than normal over the capital's so-called 'ghost homes', accusing many boroughs of “shrugging their shoulders" by not imposing the Empty Homes Premium.