Forcing lenders to wait three months before they move to repossess a property was one measure announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling in yesterday’s Pre-Budget Report.

But property experts and politicians immediately warned the delay would be nowhere near long enough to help the owners of the more than 45,000 homes expected to be repossessed by the end of the year.

Our crusade aims to force the Govern­ment to introduce mea­sures to help protect responsible homeowners.

We want them to be given a year’s grace before any action is taken.Dubbing the Prime Minister “Brown the bailiff”, Tory shadow housing minister Grant Shapps said most repossessions already took longer than six months.

“A three-month hiatus will help virtually none of the thousands left helpless by the Prime Mini­ster’s irresponsibility and failure to regulate the banking industry.”