The government should allow affordable homes to be built
on “scrappy” land that has been “wrongly designated” as green belt and hike the
stamp duty surcharge on people buying additional homes, one Labour MP has
claimed. Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden Siobhain McDonagh railed against
ministers for failing to tackle the housing crisis and dubbed their record on
creating social homes “diabolical”, before setting out her own radical plan of
action. She said: “First, it is time to burst the myth that the green belt is
green and start using the non-green sites for homes. There are garage sites,
waste plants and deserted scrublands all posing as green-belt land.” Read more
on the Mortgage Strategy website.
Starmer launches Labour local election campaign and defends ‘difficult
decisions’ over dropped pledges– as it happened
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Opposition leader says some commitments were made before ‘the Tories did
enormous damage to the economy’
Starmer is summing up the Labour offer.
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