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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, Spectators, Daily Politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls

and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson. The planning rebels have stood down after

the government has it agreed a compromise. Now James, this is one part of the muted rebellions

on the levelling up bill and this was about mandatory housing targets and lead retirees

of videos. Michael Gove tried to talk them down. Where did it land? So it's landed with essentially

places with a local plan, get more discretion, more consideration will be taken over, over particular

neighborhoods. Some of these national housing targets will become advisory rather than compulsory.

It is a watering down of what the government wanted to achieve but it is not a total abandonment.

I think it is a reminder of how difficult anything to do with planning is in the Tory party,

which is obviously a problem given that of all the supply side reforms that you could do to

the UK economy. Planning is probably one of the ones that have the biggest impact on economic

growth and I think this shows you how difficult even relatively small changes to the system are.

Fraser, there's some speculation that when it comes to the other rebellion which is the Liz

Trust Boris Johnson rebellion on onshore wind farms that could also be giving way to the rebels.

Do you think we're starting to see that British strength doesn't have the authority or

actually are we overreeding this because ultimately planning and disputes have been there for

some time? I think we're seeing one of the most important and you get understated truth

of the Senate government. This is a coalition in a way that Boris Johnson's government simply

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