
“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.