Labour is paying four “temporary advisers” the equivalent of £280,800 a year to kickstart its new homes programme. This is the project the government claims will aid “the most ambitious housebuilding programme in more than half a century” which has so far fallen far below expectations. Labour is expected to miss its housebuilding target…
Labour is meant to build 1.5 million new homes over the parliament. Net additions to housing stock are actually set to fall from 260,000 to 220,000 in 2026/27, according to the OBR’s forecasts. Labour’s four interim advisers are meant to “drive forward delivery” in the New Towns Unit which is currently plotting to build seven new towns at 10,000 homes each. You do the maths…
Government ministers have revealed in parliamentary answers that the advisers, who include the former housing lead for Sadiq Khan Lyn Garner, are “remunerated at a rate of £135 per hour and have been appointed for a fixed period of up to nine months.“ Pretty pennies…
Housing statistics continue to show up dire results. The government’s spin operation has already begun to blame the Iran war entirely…
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A defiant Starmbot has regurgitated the government’s talking points on Iran, warning at the Usdaw union’s conference that the “economic consequences could be with us for some time“.
Luckily he will chair an ’emergency’ Cobra meeting tomorrow (so urgent it can wait at least a day) in which he will be “bringing in people from the Bank of England“. The last time he ‘brought in’ someone from the Bank of England, she held two disastrous Budgets and cried on the front bench…
The Rainbow Coalition communications operation taking shape. Should focus minds on Labour’s right flank…
Guido Fawkes’s Ross Kempsell sits down with Reform activist Andrew Barclay to discuss his recent report on the state of British business – and how to fight back. A must-watch…
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Emma Reynolds when asked by Sophy Ridge if the Mandelson affair is a “Westminster bubble” story said: “I think we are spending too much time talking about it.” Reynolds claimed people on the doorstep aren’t mentioning the Mandelson affair, though did not deny they had pretty strong views on ‘Starmer’s leadership’…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”