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Angela Eagle, Lisa Nandy, Owen Smith and John Healey have resigned from the shadow Cabinet in the latest blow to Jeremy Corbyn. Eagle, shadow Business Secretary, called on Corbyn to step down in favour of a leader "who can unite rather than…
David Cameron's controversial plan to sell off housing association properties to tenants at a discount has today come under fire from an influential group of MPs for huge gaps in the detail. The public accounts committee, chaired by…
Getting to grips with the cost of housing is one of Labour’s priorities. Millions of people now struggle week-to-week because of this country’s housing crisis. But I know too often our Labour debate about a complex policy area like housing…
Labour has won another key battle in the House of Lords over the Tories' "half-baked" housing bill. Opposition peers joined forces with crossbenchers to force the Government to seek parliamentary approval over sale of high-value council…
Labour peers have inflicted a significant defeat on David Cameron's flagship plan to build 200,000 starter homes amid concern over how high-earners could profit from the scheme. Peers from Labour and the Lib Dems, as well as crossbenchers…
After five years of failure on housing, the Budget was a huge let-down. Under Conservative Ministers, housebuilding fell to its lowest peacetime level since the 1920s in the last Parliament, while home-ownership has also dropped sharply…
Labour has today launched a major review into the sharp decline in home ownership. The Redfern Review was commissioned by the Shadow Housing minister John Healey shortly after Jeremy Corbyn's leadership victory in September, but will be run…
At Jeremy Corbyn's first Parliamentary Labour Party meeting as leader, he made clear that housing was going to be one of his top priorities. Since then, the Tories have attempted to steal a march on the issue, with Osborne announcing that…
George Osborne is receiving praise in the press this morning for his expected pledge to invest in housebuilding during the Autumn Statement today. However, the 400,000 subsidised homes he is expected to pledge be built by 2020 comes after…
Labour's Shadow Housing minister John Healey has this morning hit out at the Tories' record on housing and home ownership, as David Cameron prepares to make the topic the centrepiece of his Tory conference speech today. Cameron will pledge…
In recent years, housing has had a much higher priority in the Labour Party, and a good thing too – the shortage of housing, and particularly affordable housing, is exacerbating inequality, fuelling economic instability, causing recruitment…
While Labour is totally taken up with the leadership contest, the Tories are pressing on with what they do best. Support for the disabled cut. Help for low-earning families slashed back. Public assets and investments paid for by generations…
