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The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has insisted that plans to extend "Right to Buy" to tenants in housing association properties will not increase the shortage of social housing.

Ms May said the plan to force associations to sell off more expensive properties to fund discounts for tenants and a brownfield regeneration programme would lead to 400,000 extra homes.

"What we're going to see as a result of this policy is more people housed and more people able to own their own home," she said.

Ms May would not be drawn on whether she would enter the race to succeed David Cameron as Conservative Party leader, and possibly prime minister, when he steps down.

She said only that the only contest that mattered was the one on May 7.