Voices: In criticising Angela Rayner’s use of right-to-buy, the Tories have exposed their own hypocrisy

There’s a famous quote, often attributed to Margaret Thatcher, that goes “the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”. It’s a very neat way for conservatives to dismiss not just socialism as a wider political system, but really any socialised economic programme they disagree with, including many that we use and rely on here in the UK, like the NHS and unemployment benefits.