No 10 rejects housing minister's call for people to skip generation in their wills

Downing Street distances itself from Gavin Barwell's comments, which it describes as representing 'personal' views Downing Street has rejected the housing minister's suggestion that parents should leave their property and savings to their grandchildren rather than their children to help them get on the housing ladder. Gavin Barwell made the call for pensioners to skip a generation when writing their wills as he revealed that his 75-year-old mother had chosen to leave her £700,000 house in Croyd...