Kemi Badenoch has delivered the Conservative Party’s response to Angela Rayner’s “radical” housing announcements (see previous post).
The shadow housing minister questioned how Ms Rayner will meet her pledge to avoid uncertainty in the housing sector, given the number of radical changes could be subject to legal challenges.
Ms Badenoch accused the deputy PM of not showing “respect for local decision-making” and pushing local government to the sidelines.
She also defended the previous government for scrapping mandatory housing targets, saying their advisory targets were “so that councils could make sure that they could do better, not do worse”.
“The government is in danger of choosing the worst of all worlds,” she added, by “not addressing the basic economics of housebuilding” and “centralising decision-making”.
‘The Tories failed on housing’
In a somewhat spiky response, the deputy PM made a quip about Mrs Badenoch’s leadership bid: “It was her ambition to be leader of the opposition all along – not mine.
“I must say, the honourable lady seems to be…
