Government ministers will meet with high-street banks tomorrow and call on them to make first-time buyers their “top priority” as Labour focuses on boosting homeownership. This left a situation where some banks threatened to breach this level, while others were comfortably under this mark. Reeves said the move would lead to 36,000 extra FTBs buying their own home in the first full year of the relaxations. Senior representatives from Skipton, Yorkshire, Cambridge, Leeds, Bath and Coventry Building Societies, as well as lobby group the Building Societies Association, were at that roundtable. “Building societies have always led the way in developing innovative solutions to help people into homeownership, and we are ready to do more.”