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13 December 2024

Bringing the house down?

Why Labour finds it so difficult to get housebuilding off the ground.

By Rachel Cunliffe

“If people can persuade me that actually not building enough houses, not allowing young people to get onto the housing ladder until they’re in their late thirties or early forties, [it doesn’t matter], that’s fine. But I think it does matter. And if it does matter, we’re going to have to do big things to solve it.”

So I was told not too long ago by one passionate millennial MP from the Home Counties, determined to champion housebuilding on behalf of his party.

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