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The News Agents

Why do we have to choose between new homes and clean water?

The News Agents

Global

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

BREAKING NEWS: Rishi Sunak’s SpAd has hit back at Keir Starmer's ‘Inaction Man‘ gag and called him - wait for it - a ‘man of action’.

But first, Labour is voting against the government’s bill to build more new homes.

Why?

Because the Tories say they would rip up old EU environmental regulation to get morew homes built. Do we really have to choose between the two? Conservatives argue the ‘nutrient neutral ‘ regulations are out dated. Labour says it’s ridiculous to wait 13 years for a solution which then endangers the land.

And Later we give the Lib Dems the right to respond to the row over the by-election in Nadine Dorries' old seat.

Editor: Tom Hughes

Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus

Producer: Laura FitzPatrick

Planning Producer: Alex Barnett

Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell

Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.

0:08.9

This is a global player original podcast.

0:12.7

Mr Speaker, he talks about trust, he talks about action just today.

0:18.2

This government is taking action to reform defective EU laws to unlock over

0:23.6

100,000 homes, boosting our economy, supporting jobs and ensuring that we can realise the

0:30.6

aspirations of homeowners. Now, he tried, he talks about trust. He tried in this House to

0:35.6

talk the talk on house building. But at the first

0:38.9

sign of a cheap political hit, what did he do? He's caved in, Mr. Speaker. Rather than make the

0:45.9

right long-term decisions for the country, he's taken the easy way out. It is typical of the

0:52.1

principles-free, conviction-free type of leadership that he offers.

0:56.7

Flip-flopping from being a builder to a blocker, Mr Speaker, the British public can't trust a word he says.

1:04.3

This is the new battleground that Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, was setting up today in Prime Minister's questions. Do you want to

1:12.4

see a party that gets on with things, that builds houses, or a party that blocks things like

1:18.7

Kirstama? And today we're asking whether, to flip it round, we are really being made to choose

1:26.7

between more houses and clean water.

1:31.2

That's the way Labour is framing the argument.

1:34.9

Is that fair?

1:36.1

Welcome to the newsagents.

1:40.8

The Newsagents.

1:42.5

It's Emily.

1:43.5

And it's Lewis.

2:04.3

And later on, we are going to be returning to something that was on the show yesterday, and which created, I think it's fair to say, a bit of a war of words between the Labour Party and the Lib Dems, which is exactly how nasty is the by-election in Midbedfordshire becoming and exactly what has been said about whom in terms of the local candidates.

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