Jules Birch
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Still don't understand why Sunak didn't wait till Sept or Oct for the election.
Breaking news: The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the first time in more than four years after UK headline inflation fell to its target rate of 2%
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Timely reminder that focussing all the attention on the two-child limit misses the pernicious impacts of other policies like the benefit cap that just pushes people into deeper poverty.
theguardian.com
Limit on support for low-income families, introduced in 2013, said to be pushing people deeper into poverty
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Strangely muted coverage of King's Speech from Telegraph - was expected an editorialising 'Starmer declares war on countryside'.
telegraph.co.uk
Labour Bill to be announced in King’s Speech aims to ‘turbo-charge’ house-building – including on the Green Belt
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Meanwhile Barratt saying it will build 500 to 1,000 fewer new homes than a year ago.
news.sky.com
The government may need some help outside its control if its promises on housebuilding are to get off to a promising start, as new home volumes dip.
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Housing associations can't afford affordable homes in London, developer tells assembly members. 'The Section 106 system is kind of creaking at the seams'.
standard.co.uk
System used by private developers is ‘creaking at the seams’
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RT @GregClarkMP: Big congratulations to @Miatsf - a great person, of exceptional talent. As a civil servant Miatta was my lead official on….
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* The chart shows Labour support and +/-, then Tory support with +/-, then Reform support with +/-.
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This survey of how people voted by @focaldataHQ includes by housing tenure - says Tory support fell by most among outright owners and social renters. Fell least among private renters. Labour support down among private renters with more going Green and Reform
💥 Very pleased to be able to reveal the results of our How Britain Voted analysis, using a sample of 53,000 unique respondents. Full demographic results are at the below link, but here's a short thread.
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Anyone who has made the argument that housing is infrastructure will be pleased by Rachel Reeves speech this am referencing 'the urgent steps necessary to build the infrastructure that we need, including 1.5 million new homes in the next five years'.
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Nick Boles to lead Labour's review of NPPF?
theguardian.com
Approach made to Nick Boles as Starmer prepares to announce immediate changes to regulations
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Not quite - misheard it the first three times and she actually said ‘did not listen to you’. Apologies will delete.
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RT @PickardJE: Sir Keir Starmer is expected to set out an extensive package of pro-development planning reforms within days, as part of pla….
ft.com
The reforms are a critical part of the party’s plan to pull the UK out of a decade of low growth and productivity
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Great election and sport trivia - only one football team in England’s top four divisions will now play in a Tory constituency . Explains why Starmer held so many events at football grounds.
thetimes.com
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A powerful rebuttal coming from the MP who ousted one of the leaders of the Tory backbench rebellion on planning.
No. We won a landslide majority on a mandate of solving the housing crisis and growing our economy. People voted for change, for prosperity and for a party that was honest about what needed to be done. Now is the time to do, not duck, the hard choices.
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In terms of housing best result is nimby in chief Theresa Villiers losing her seat. A bit sad to see Peter Bottomley, who has championed leaseholders for decades, lose his.
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First ex-prime minister to lose their seat since Ramsay Macdonald in 1935?.
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