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Nearly 200,000 council homes will vanish by 2020 as David Cameron forces councils to sell their best properties, Labour said.

Shadow Ministers will today try to block the move with amendments to the Housing and Planning Bill.

Labour’s John Healey said: “By selling affordable homes for local people to overseas speculators and buy-to-let landlords, ministers will make the housing pressures people face even worse.”

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Figures from the Commons library show the number of council homes fell 117,000 in the first four years of Mr Cameron’s premiership to 1,669,000.

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Projected figures show the sell-off will cut the number to 1,449,576 by the end of the decade.

Mr Healey warned: ­“Ministers must re-think these damaging plans.”