Is Keir Starmer ready to do battle with the Nimbys?

The News Agents

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Angela Rayner promises to deliver 1.5 million new homes within five years. It’s setting the battle lines for what the Telegraph is calling the “bulldozing of the Home Counties“. Is Keir Starmer ready to take on the Nimbys even if the Nimbys are now his core 2024 voter?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.4	This is a global player original podcast.
0:13.4	I think it is vitally important that we build more houses in our country.
0:18.8	So we will build better and build greener, but we will also build faster.
0:26.6	We said we'd build these homes.
0:28.6	It's going to take us a lot of change to deliver that.
0:32.6	We'll get shovels in the ground, cranes in the sky, and built the next generation of Labour New Town.
0:39.3	It all sounds so familiar.
0:43.3	Britain is going to start building again.
0:45.8	We're going to deal with infrastructure.
0:47.9	There's going to be more houses.
0:50.6	Year after year, decade after decade,
0:54.0	prime ministers have been singing the same tune, but not much gets built.
1:00.5	Angela Rainer is promising to shake up the planning rules to fix what she's calling a broken system.
1:07.1	It will mean that councils have to build 400,000 homes a year in England, but can it be done and at what cost?
1:15.8	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:20.0	The newsagents.
1:21.5	It's John.
1:22.4	It's Emily.
1:23.5	It's Lewis.
1:24.2	Why are you giggling?
1:24.9	Are you feeling skittish that it's near Christmas?
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