Turn Buckingham Palace Into Council Flats says Labour Spokesman

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Buckingham Palace should be turned into council flats, Labour's London housing spokesman has suggested.

Tom Copley's controversial call to evict the Queen from her landmark residence was made at the annual Class conference held in London.

Addressing the audience of Labour supporters and trade unionists he said: "I almost think my opening gambit should be that the solution to the housing crisis should be the late Mo Mowlam's proposal that we turn Buckingham Palace into council housing - which I always thought wasn't a particularly bad idea."

His speech, made as Labour's housing spokesman on the London Assembly, came days after he launched an outspoken attack in his blog on "stomach churning" tributes on the birth of Prince George.

Mr Copley joked about that row in his opening remarks, saying listeners "may be forgiven for thinking I am the royal spokesperson for the Labour group".  But Tory vice-chairman Bob Neill branded his call to confiscate the Palace "mean-spirited and vindictive".

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