Toby Lloyd, an independent housing policy consultant and former special adviser to No 10 Downing Street, is the guest on this week’s Home Truths podcast series.

Before working for the government, Lloyd was head of policy and then housing development at Shelter, the campaigning housing and homelessness charity. His campaign work helped to move housing up the political agenda in the lead up to the 2015 general election. 

Lloyd was a housing and regeneration policy special adviser to Theresa May for over a year until July 2019, when she was forced to resign having lost parliamentary support for her Brexit deal. During that time he worked directly for Gavin Barwell,  who was May’s chief of staff from July 2017. Before that Barwell had served as housing and planning minister until he lost his parliamentary seat in the 2017 snap election.