Quotes About Council house

Any success I have had is thanks to Labour governments that provided the council house, minimum wage, tax credits and Sure Start children's centre that enabled me to achieve it.

Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London - I didn't have a privileged or wealthy upbringing - but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax.

I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.