Britain is in the grip of the worst housing crisis in living memory. For too long, the country has been held to ransom by the blockers and bureaucrats who have stopped the country building, choked off growth and driven prices through the roof. They’re suffocating the aspirations of working families and obscuring the future of our country.
Those days are over. Our manifesto was very clear — the only way to improve the nation’s prosperity and the living standards of working people is sustained economic growth. We’re determined to do this with stability, investment and reform.
Take our planning system — urgently in need of decisive reform after decades of becoming increasingly ruinous. House prices have gone through the roof as home-building has gone through