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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm James Seal.

I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson, the editor of the Spectator, and Liam Halligan, the Telegraph's economic agenda correspondent.

Now this morning, Fraser, the splash story on the Times newspaper is that landowners profits from sale of green belt sites could be capped.

This is the news that councils have to be given the power to compulsory and cheaply buy

Luplach green belt land under plans I minister to fulfill their pledge to bill 1.5 million

new homes by 2030, so this is to stop

land and some profiting on it. Is this a good idea or not? This is a sign of

labour trying to show that it can do what the Tories couldn't. Now Tories

spoke about building houses, and how many governments over the last 20 years have come up with house building targets.

But nothing really seems to change.

Now the Conservatives came up against the political opposition of their own shires and you had a

Chesham and Amish and by election where the Lib Dems won that and the Tories thought

okay that's it we can't push this planning thing anymore. Labor has now come into power, its work out, it's got some

honeymoon, it's got some political capital to spend, so it wants to confront the limbs and it doesn't

have that. By the way, the labor does actually have quite a few shower seats more than it expected, but it

feels it can take the political hit and to not exactly invite people to concrete over the

green belt, but certainly not away at it. Now personally I'm very pro-planning and

I would encourage you this development. I think we need a lot more homes especially given

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