Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander has made it clear that the Coalition's Help to Buy scheme will not be used to enable middle class Britons to buy second homes.
It came as confusion was sown over the details of the Lib-Con plans, a centrepiece of the Budget, to get more people on to the housing ladder and to get more homes built.
Chancellor George Osborne had initially ducked questions about whether the proposed scheme could be used to help people buy second homes.
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